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Havard R Glattre1, Eystein Glattre1, Lars Moe1
1Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, NMBU, Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
We have until now focused solely on the non-coding, more precisely the non-protein-coding (npc), part of DNA of man and dog in the search for hidden y-texts written by means of y-words - spelled by nucleotides A, C, G, and T and delimited by stop-codons. In this paper we use the same methods to analyse the whole human and canine genome, but we divide the genome into the genetic part, the naturally occurring sequence of exons, and the non-protein-coding genome according to definitions. By use of the y-text-finder we determine the number of zipf-qualified and a-qualified texts hidden in each of these parts. We present the actual methods and procedures, and the results in twelve figures, six for Homo sapiens sapiens and six for Canis lupus familiaris. Results show that there are lots of y-texts in the genetic part of the genome just as there are in the npc-genome. There is even a non-negligible number of ?-texts hidden in the sequence of exons. In addition, we show how many genes we find included in or overlapping zipf-qualified and a-qualified y-texts in the one-stranded DNA of man and dog. We assume that all this information represents the cell's total ability to behave in all of life's situations and discuss briefly ?-text reading and disease aetiology; carcinogenesis are also discussed.
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