Universality in a DNA Statistical Structure

Mark Ya. Azbel

Physical Review Letters 75(1), 168--171 (1995)

Abstract

A DNA autocorrelation function is a slightly and slowly modulated autocorrelation function of a random squence. Its coarse grained root-mean-squared fluctuations are approximately homogeneous and equal to those of a random sequence. A DNA may be decomposed into a random sequence of white noise domains, which have different lengths and nucleotide concentrations, but a universal length scale. No long-range correlations are found in any of the studied DNA sequences.