Regulatory potential scores from genome-wide three-way alignments of human, mouse, and rat

Diana Kolbe, James Taylor, Laura Elnitski, Pallavi Eswara, Jia Li, Webb Miller, Ross Hardison, Francesca Chiaromonte

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Abstract

We generalize the computation of the Regulatory Potential (RP) score from two-way alignments of human and mouse to three-way alignments of human, mouse, and rat. This requires overcoming technical challenges that arise because the complexity of the models underlying the score increases exponentially with the number of species. Despite the close evolutionary proximity of rat to mouse, we find that adding the rat sequence increases our ability to predict genomic sites that regulate gene transcription. A variant of the RP scoring scheme that accounts for local variation in neutral mutational patterns further improves our predictions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)700-707
Number of pages8
JournalGenome research
Volume14
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Genetics
  • Genetics(clinical)

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