BACKGROUND: Though interest in human simple sequence repeats (SSRs) is increasing, little is known about the exact distributional features of numerous SSRs in human Y-DNA at chromosomal level. Herein, totally 540 maps were established, which could clearly display SSR landscape in every bin of 1 k base pairs (Kbp) along the sequenced part of human reference Y-DNA (NC_000024.10), by our developed differential method for improving the existing method to reveal SSR distributional characteristics in large genomic sequences. RESULTS: The maps show that SSRs accumulate significantly with forming density peaks in at least 2040 bins of 1 Kbp, which involve different coding, noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, and 10 especially high density peaks were reported to associate with biological significances, suggesting that the other hundreds of especially high density peaks might also be biologically significant and worth further analyzing. In contrast, the maps also show that SSRs are extremely sparse in at least 207 bins of 1 Kbp, including many noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, which is inconsistent with the widely accepted view that SSRs are mostly rich in these regions, and these sparse distributions are possibly due to powerfully regional selection. Additionally, many regions harbor SSR clusters with same or similar motif in the Y-DNA. CONCLUSIONS: These 540 maps may provide the important information of clearly position-related SSR distributional features along the human reference Y-DNA for better understanding the genome structures of the Y-DNA. This study may contribute to further exploring the biological significance and distribution law of the huge numbers of SSRs in human Y-DNA.
BACKGROUND: Though interest in human simple sequence repeats (SSRs) is increasing, little is known about the exact distributional features of numerous SSRs in human Y-DNA at chromosomal level. Herein, totally 540 maps were established, which could clearly display SSR landscape in every bin of 1 k base pairs (Kbp) along the sequenced part of human reference Y-DNA (NC_000024.10), by our developed differential method for improving the existing method to reveal SSR distributional characteristics in large genomic sequences. RESULTS: The maps show that SSRs accumulate significantly with forming density peaks in at least 2040 bins of 1 Kbp, which involve different coding, noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, and 10 especially high density peaks were reported to associate with biological significances, suggesting that the other hundreds of especially high density peaks might also be biologically significant and worth further analyzing. In contrast, the maps also show that SSRs are extremely sparse in at least 207 bins of 1 Kbp, including many noncoding and intergenic regions of the Y-DNA, which is inconsistent with the widely accepted view that SSRs are mostly rich in these regions, and these sparse distributions are possibly due to powerfully regional selection. Additionally, many regions harbor SSR clusters with same or similar motif in the Y-DNA. CONCLUSIONS: These 540 maps may provide the important information of clearly position-related SSR distributional features along the human reference Y-DNA for better understanding the genome structures of the Y-DNA. This study may contribute to further exploring the biological significance and distribution law of the huge numbers of SSRs in human Y-DNA.
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1 Kbp differential unit; Extremely low SSR density region; Human Y-DNA; SSR density peak; SSR landscape; Simple sequence repeat
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