| Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes. | |
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PMID: 22197514 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Recently, a random breakage model has been proposed to explain the negative correlation between mean chromosome length and chromosome number that is found in many groups of species and is consistent with Menzerath-Altmann law, a statistical law that defines the dependency between the mean size of the whole and the number of parts in quantitative linguistics. Here, the central assumption of the model, namely that genome size is independent from chromosome number is reviewed. This assumption is shown to be unrealistic from the perspective of chromosome structure and the statistical analysis of real genomes. A general class of random models, including that random breakage model, is analyzed. For any model within this class, a power law with an exponent of -1 is predicted for the expectation of the mean chromosome size as a function of chromosome length, a functional dependency that is not supported by real genomes. The random breakage and variants keeping genome size and chromosome number independent raise no serious objection to the relevance of correlations consistent with Menzerath-Altmann law across taxonomic groups and the possibility of a connection between human language and genomes through that law. |
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Authors:
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Jaume Baixeries; Antoni Hernández-Fernández; Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2011-12-16 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Bio Systems Volume: 107 ISSN: 1872-8324 ISO Abbreviation: BioSystems Publication Date: 2012 Mar |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2012-02-08 Completed Date: 2012-05-29 Revised Date: 2013-05-03 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0430773 Medline TA: Biosystems Country: Ireland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 167-73 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Complexity and Quantitative Linguistics Lab, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, LARCA Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Omega, Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain. jbaixer@lsi.upc.edu |
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Animals Chromosome Breakage* Chromosomes* Evolution, Molecular* Genome Size* Humans Language Models, Genetic* Music Plants / genetics |
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Biosystems. 2013 Mar;111(3):216-7 |
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