Redundancy of Eukaryotic DNA Decreases After Excision of Introns
T.G. Popova and M.G. Sadovskii
Molecular Biology 29(3), 281--285 (1995)
Abstract
The article is devoted to analysis of the internal gene structure with
respect to redundancy of exons and introns. Human genes with precisely
determined exon-intron structure were studied. Redundancy of each
exon and intron within a certain gene was measured. In the analyzed
human genes, introns were more redundant than exons. Redundancy
was determined as the minimal length of a word (oligonucleotide) that
is present as a single copy within the nucletide sequence studied.
Mechanisms are discussed that lead to disturbances in the relationships
found between the redundancies of exons and introns.
