Biological origins of long-range correlations and compositional variations in DNA.

doi:10.1093/nar/21.22.5167

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Biological origins of long-range correlations and compositional variations in DNA.

Nucleic acids research - 11 Nov 1993

Larhammar D, Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann C A

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The occurrence of certain long-range correlations between nucleotides in DNA sequences of living organisms has recently been reported. The biological origin of these correlations was unknown. The correlations were proposed to be concerned with fractal structure and differences between intron-cont...

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Animals
Bacteriophage lambda
Base Composition
Base Sequence
DNA
Genetic Variation
Humans
Introns
Molecular Sequence Data
Myosins

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