Buldyrev, Sergey V.; Dokholyan, Nikolay V.; Havlin, Shlomo - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 273 (1999) 1, pp. 19-32
We review recent studies of distribution of dimeric tandem repeats and short oligomer clustering in DNA sequences. We find that distribution of dimeric tandem repeats in coding DNA is exponential, while in noncoding DNA it often has long power-law tails. We explain this phenomenon using mutation...