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  • Title: A stochastic gene evolution model with time dependent mutations.
    Author: Bahi JM, Michel CJ.
    Journal: Bull Math Biol; 2004 Jul; 66(4):763-78. PubMed ID: 15210317.
    Abstract:
    We develop here a new class of gene evolution models in which the nucleotide mutations are time dependent. These models allow to study nonlinear gene evolution by accelerating or decelerating the mutation rates at different evolutionary times. They generalize the previous ones which are based on constant mutation rates. The stochastic model developed in this class determines at some time t the occurrence probabilities of trinucleotides mutating according to 3 time dependent substitution parameters associated with the 3 trinucleotide sites. Therefore, it allows to simulate the evolution of the circular code recently observed in genes. By varying the class of function for the substitution parameters, 1 among 12 models retrieves after mutation the statistical properties of the observed circular code in the 3 frames of actual genes. In this model, the mutation rate in the 3rd trinucleotide site increases during gene evolution while the mutation rates in the 1st and 2nd sites decrease. This property agrees with the actual degeneracy of the genetic code. This approach can easily be generalized to study evolution of motifs of various lengths, e.g., dicodons, etc., with time dependent mutations.
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