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Genome Wide Analysis of Dinucleotide Distribution along the Genomes of Species and its Biological Implication

Cai, Z.; Liu, S.; Xue, Y.; Quan, H.; Zhang, L.; Gao, Y. Q.

2020-02-20 evolutionary biology
10.1101/2020.02.20.957142 bioRxiv
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Dinucleotide densities and their distribution patterns vary significantly among species. Previous studies revealed that CpG is susceptible to methylation, enriched at topologically associating domains (TADs) boundaries and its distribution along the genome correlates with chromatin compartmentalization. However, the multi-scale organizations of CpG in the linear genome, their role in chromatin organization, and how they change along the evolution are only partially understood. By comparing the CpG distribution at different genomic length scales, we quantify the difference between the CpG distributions of different species and evaluate how the hierarchical uneven CpG distribution appears in evolution. The clustering of species based on the CpG distribution is consistent with the phylogenetic tree. Interestingly, we found the CpG distribution and chromatin structure to be correlated in many different length scales, especially for mammals and avians, consistent with the mosaic CpG distribution in the genomes of these species.

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