title: The statistical correlation of nucleotides in protein-coding DNA sequences.
abstract: The statistical correlation of nucleotides in a DNA sequence is described by a set of redundancies D1, D2, D3, . . . . By calculation of [Dn] of 2341 coding regions of nucleic acid sequences it is demonstrated that about 2/3 of sequences has correlation length less than or equal to 2, 10% of sequences--correlation with 3-periodicity and others--long range aperiodic correlations. The implications of the results from the interactions of random mutation and natural selection are discussed briefly.
authors.affiliation: Physics Department, Inner Mongolia University, Huhehote, China.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA