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ArticleNucleic acids research2002

Statistical significance of clusters of motifs represented by position specific scoring matrices in nucleotide sequences.

Martin C Frith, John L Spouge, Ulla Hansen, Zhiping Weng

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martin C FrithBioinformatics Program, Boston University, 44 Cummington Street, Boston MA 02215, USA.
John L Spouge
Ulla Hansen
Zhiping Weng
Boston University · US

Funding

LSF AND MAMMALIAN CELL CYCLE PROGRESSIONR01CA081157 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY · PI HANSEN, ULLA M · 1999 to 2004
$1.2M
Mathematically Rigorous Results In Sequence Matching.Z01LM000088 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI SPOUGE, JOHN L · 1999 to 2008
$366k
NCI NIH HHS CA81157NCI NIH HHS R01 CA081157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human genome encodes the transcriptional control of its genes in clusters of cis-elements that constitute enhancers, silencers and promoter signals. The sequence motifs of individual cis- elements are usually too short and degenerate for confident detection. In most cases, the requirements for organization of cis-elements within these clusters are poorly understood. Therefore, we have developed a general method to detect local concentrations of cis-element motifs, using predetermined matrix representations of the cis-elements, and calculate the statistical significance of these motif clusters. The statistical significance calculation is highly accurate not only for idealized, pseudorandom DNA, but also for real human DNA. We use our method 'cluster of motifs E-value tool' (COMET) to make novel predictions concerning the regulation of genes by transcription factors associated with muscle. COMET performs comparably with two alternative state-of-the-art techniques, which are more complex and lack E-value calculations. Our statistical method enables us to clarify the major bottleneck in the hard problem of detecting cis-regulatory regions, which is that many known enhancers do not contain very significant clusters of the motif types that we search for. Thus, discovery of additional signals that belong to these regulatory regions will be the key to future progress.

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AlgorithmsHumansModels, StatisticalPromoter Regions, GeneticRegulatory Sequences, Nucleic AcidReproducibility of ResultsSequence Analysis, DNATranscription Initiation Site

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PMID12136103
PMCPMC135758
OpenAlexW2107768450

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