Greedy method for inferring tandem duplication history

Louxin Zhang, Bin Ma, Lusheng Wang, Ying Xu

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Abstract

Motivation: Genome analysis suggests that tandem duplication is an important mode of evolutionary novelty by permitting one copy of each gene to drift and potentially to acquire a new function. With more and more genomic sequences available, reconstructing duplication history has received extensive attention recently. Results: An efficient method is presented for inferring the duplication history of tandemly repeated sequences based on the model proposed by Fitch (1977). We validate the method by using simulation results and real data sets of mucin genes, ZNF genes, and olfactory receptors genes. The agreement with conclusions drawn by other biological researchers strongly indicates that our method is efficient and robust.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1497-1504
JournalBioinformatics
Volume19
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Aug 2003

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