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GC-compositional strand bias around transcription start sites in plants and fungi.
BMC genomics - 28 Feb 2005
Fujimori Shigeo, Washio Takanori, Tomita Masaru
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A GC-compositional strand bias or GC-skew (=(C-G)/(C+G)), where C and G denote the numbers of cytosine and guanine residues, was recently reported near the transcription start sites (TSS) of Arabidopsis genes. However, it is unclear whether other eukaryotic species have equally prominent GC-skews, and the biological meaning of this trait remains unknown. RESULTS: Our study confirmed a significant...
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