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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 4, 395-405, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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A statistical analysis of nucleotide sequences of introns and exons in human genes

M Bulmer
Department of Biomathematics, University of Oxford, England.

DNA sequences of 56 human genes for which information on both exons and introns was available were examined. The variance in G+C content among genes is estimated and shown to be substantial. There is a high correlation in G+C content between exons and introns within the same gene. The dinucleotide frequencies of introns are similar to those of intergenic spacer regions and are in reasonable agreement with predictions from substitution rates estimated from pseudogenes, except that the observed deficiency of TA doublets is not predicted. Duplicated bases also show a frequency greater than the expectation under independence. There is marked variability among genes in the frequency of the doublet CG relative to its expectation under independence. This variation is evolutionarily conserved and is correlated with the G+C content. Pseudogenes behave as if they are in a low -G+C, CG-deficient part of the genome, although the genes from which they arose are variable in these respects.
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