Covariation in frequencies of substitution, deletion, transposition, and recombination during eutherian evolution.

Ross C. Hardison, Krishna M. Roskin, Shan Yang, Mark Diekhans, W. James Kent, Ryan Weber, Laura Elnitski, Jia Li, Michael O'Connor, Diana Kolbe, Scott Schwartz, Terrence S. Furey, Simon Whelan, Nick Goldman, Arian Smit, Webb Miller, Francesca Chiaromonte, David Haussler

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    Abstract

    Six measures of evolutionary change in the human genome were studied, three derived from the aligned human and mouse genomes in conjunction with the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium, consisting of (1) nucleotide substitution per fourfold degenerate site in coding regions, (2) nucleotide substitution per site in relics of transposable elements active only before the human-mouse speciation, and (3) the nonaligning fraction of human DNA that is nonrepetitive or in ancestral repeats; and three derived from human genome data alone, consisting of (4) SNP density, (5) frequency of insertion of transposable elements, and (6) rate of recombination. Features 1 and 2 are measures of nucleotide substitutions at two classes of "neutral" sites, whereas 4 is a measure of recent mutations. Feature 3 is a measure dominated by deletions in mouse, whereas 5 represents insertions in human. It was found that all six vary significantly in megabase-sized regions genome-wide, and many vary together. This indicates that some regions of a genome change slowly by all processes that alter DNA, and others change faster. Regional variation in all processes is correlated with, but not completely accounted for, by GC content in human and the difference between GC content in human and mouse.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)13-26
    Number of pages13
    JournalGenome research
    Volume13
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jan 2003

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