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ArticleBMC genomics2021

A comprehensive microsatellite landscape of human Y-DNA at kilobase resolution.

Douyue Li, Saichao Pan, Hongxi Zhang, Yongzhuo Fu, Zhuli Peng, Liang Zhang, Shan Peng, Fei Xu, Hanrou Huang, Ruixue Shi and 3 more

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Article in BMC genomics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Douyue Li *Bioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Saichao Pan *Bioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Hongxi Zhang *Bioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Yongzhuo FuBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Zhuli PengBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Liang ZhangBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Shan PengBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Fei XuDepartment of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada.
Hanrou HuangBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Ruixue ShiBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Heping ZhengBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Yousong PengBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China.
Zhongyang TanBioinformatics Center, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China. zhongyangtan@yeah.net.
Hunan University · CNWilfrid Laurier University · CA

Funding

National Key Plan for Scientific Research and Development of China 2016YFC1200200National Key Plan for Scientific Research and Development of China 2016YFD0500300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThough interest in human simple sequence repeats (SSRs) is increasing, little is known about the exact distributional features of numerous SSRs in human Y-DNA at chromosomal level. Herein, totally 540 maps were established, which could clearly display SSR landscape in every bin of 1 k base pairs (Kbp) along the sequenced part of human reference Y-DNA (NC_000024.10), by our developed differential method for improving the existing method to reveal SSR distributional characteristics in large genomic sequences.

resultsThe maps show that SSRs accumulate significantly with forming density peaks in at least 2040 bins of 1 Kbp, which involve different coding, noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, and 10 especially high density peaks were reported to associate with biological significances, suggesting that the other hundreds of especially high density peaks might also be biologically significant and worth further analyzing. In contrast, the maps also show that SSRs are extremely sparse in at least 207 bins of 1 Kbp, including many noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, which is inconsistent with the widely accepted view that SSRs are mostly rich in these regions, and these sparse distributions are possibly due to powerfully regional selection. Additionally, many regions harbor SSR clusters with same or similar motif in the Y-DNA.

conclusionsThese 540 maps may provide the important information of clearly position-related SSR distributional features along the human reference Y-DNA for better understanding the genome structures of the Y-DNA. This study may contribute to further exploring the biological significance and distribution law of the huge numbers of SSRs in human Y-DNA.

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Microsatellite RepeatsPolymorphism, GeneticDNAGenomeGenome, PlantHumansSequence Analysis, DNADNA1 Kbp differential unitExtremely low SSR density regionHuman Y-DNASimple sequence repeatSSR density peakSSR landscape

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PMID33482734
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