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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 91(5): 052703, 2015 May.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26066195
RESUMO
We model long-range correlations of nucleotides in the human DNA sequence using the long-range one-dimensional (1D) Ising model. We show that, for distances between 10(3) and 10(6) bp, the correlations show a universal behavior and may be described by the non-mean-field limit of the long-range 1D Ising model. This allows us to make some testable hypothesis on the nature of the interaction between distant portions of the DNA chain which led to the DNA structure that we observe today in higher eukaryotes.