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Detecting correlations among functional sequence motifs

Sequence motifs are words of nucleotides in DNA with biological functions, e.g. gene regulation. Identification of such words proceeds through rejection of Markov models on the expected motif frequency along the genome. Additional biological information can be extracted from the correlation structure among patterns of motif occurrences. In this paper a log-linear multivariate intensity Poisson model is estimated via expectation maximization on a set of motifs along the genome of E. coli K12. The proposed approach allows for excitatory as well as inhibitory interactions among motifs and between motifs and other genomic features like gene occurrences. Our findings confirm previous stylized facts about such types of interactions and shed new light on genome-maintenance functions of some particular motifs. We expect these methods to be applicable to a wider set of genomic features.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2012/07

Classification
Wirtschaft
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: General
Mathematical Methods

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pirino, Davide
Rigosa, Jacopo
Ledda, Alice
Ferretti, Luca
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
(where)
Pisa
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Pirino, Davide
  • Rigosa, Jacopo
  • Ledda, Alice
  • Ferretti, Luca
  • Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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