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Electrophoretic Analysis of Replication Through Structure-Prone DNA Repeats Within the SV40-Based Human Episome
Published on: September 13, 2024
(TG:CA)(n) repeats in human housekeeping genes
Vineet K Sharma1, Chandrika B-Rao, Anu Sharma
1G N Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Mall Road, Delhi 110 007, India.
Abstract:
The unravelling of human genome sequence gives a new opportunity to investigate the role of repetitive sequences in gene regulation. Among the various types of repetitive sequences, the dinucleotide (TG:CA)(n) repeats are one of the most abundant in human genome and exhibit polymorphism. Early on, it was observed that the (TG:CA)(n) repeats could modulate gene expression and has the propensity to undergo conformational transitions in in vivo conditions. Recent reports describe the role of polymorphic (TG:CA)(n) repeats in gene regulation in several genes. In this work, we have analysed the distribution of (TG:CA)(n) (n >or= 6) repeats in human 'housekeeping genes' on which recently released Gene Chip data is available. Our results indicate that (i). The number of short intragenic (TG:CA)(n) repeats is significantly higher than the number of long repeats (ii). the proportion of genes with (TG:CA)(n) repeats (n >or= 12 units) had lower mean expression levels compared to those without these repeats, (iii). the genes belonging to the functional class of 'signalling and communication' had a positive association with repeats in contrast to the genes belonging to the 'information' class that were negatively associated with repeats.
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