Skew in CG content near the transcription start site in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Tatarinova, Tatiana; Brover, Vyacheslav; Troukhan, Maxim; Alexandrov, Nickolai · Bioinformatics · 2003

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We have discovered a novel statistical feature of Arabidopsis thaliana genome that remarkably correlates with a position of transcription start site--CG skew peak. We hypothesize that the phenomenon can be explained by the higher mutability of unprotected cytosines.

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