Mutation patterns of amino acid tandem repeats in the human proteome
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- dc.contributor.author Mularoni, Lorisca
- dc.contributor.author Guigó Serra, Rodericca
- dc.contributor.author Albà Soler, Marca
- dc.date.accessioned 2011-11-28T11:08:17Z
- dc.date.available 2011-11-28T11:08:17Z
- dc.date.issued 2006ca
- dc.description.abstract Background: Amino acid tandem repeats are found in nearly one-fifth of human proteins. Abnormal expansion of these regions is associated with several human disorders. To gain further insight into the mutational mechanisms that operate in this type of sequence, we have analyzed a large number of mutation variants derived from human expressed sequence tags (ESTs)./nResults: We identified 137 polymorphic variants in 115 different amino acid tandem repeats. Of these, 77 contained amino acid substitutions and 60 contained gaps (expansions or contractions of the repeat unit). The analysis showed that at least about 21% of the repeats might be polymorphic in humans. We compared the mutations found in different types of amino acid repeats and in adjacent regions. Overall, repeats showed a five-fold increase in the number of gap mutations compared to adjacent regions, reflecting the action of slippage within the repetitive structures. Gap and substitution mutations were very differently distributed between different amino acid repeat types. Among repeats containing gap variants we identified several disease and candidate disease genes./nConclusion: This is the first report at a genome-wide scale of the types of mutations occurring in the amino acid repeat component of the human proteome. We show that the mutational dynamics of different amino acid repeat types are very diverse. We provide a list of loci with highly variable repeat structures, some of which may be potentially involved in disease.en
- dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by grants BIO2002-04426-C02-01 and BIO2003-05073 from Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain), and STAR European Project.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Mularoni L, Guigó R, Albà M M. Mutation patterns of amino acid tandem repeats in the human proteome. Genome Biology. 2006;7(4):33. DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-4-r33
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2006-7-4-r33
- dc.identifier.issn 1465-6906
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/13155
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.publisher BioMed Centralca
- dc.relation.ispartof Genome Biology. 2006;7(4):33
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- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PN/BIO2003-05073
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- dc.subject.keyword Codonen
- dc.subject.keyword Humansen
- dc.subject.keyword Proteomeen
- dc.subject.keyword Amino Acid repetitive sequencesen
- dc.subject.keyword Protein sequence analysisen
- dc.subject.keyword Amino Acid substitutionen
- dc.subject.keyword Expressed sequence tagsen
- dc.subject.keyword Mutationen
- dc.subject.other Genètica humanaca
- dc.subject.other Biologia molecularca
- dc.subject.other Polimorfisme genèticca
- dc.title Mutation patterns of amino acid tandem repeats in the human proteomeca
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