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Volume 108, Number 3, November 2014
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Article Number | 38004 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/108/38004 | |
Published online | 11 November 2014 |
A κ-statistical analysis of the Y-chromosome
1 Departamento de Física Teórica e Experimental, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Natal-RN, 59072-970, Brazil
2 Escola de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - 59072-970, Natal- RN, Brazil
3 Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Física - Mossoró-RN, 59610-210, Brazil
Received: 3 September 2014
Accepted: 17 October 2014
An analysis of the coding sequence for the Y-chromosome (Homo sapiens) has been performed, embedded in the formalism of κ-statistics, which naturally encompasses long-range correlations. In this formalism, the entropy has been written as a function of κ (called the deformation —or entropic— parameter). The κ-entropy has been linked directly to dimensional parameters defined for the DNA chain associated with the chromosome Y. Our analysis indicates that there are certain regions of chromosome Y which exhibit linearity between entropy and sample sizes for some particular values of κ, implying that, on these regions, the information contained on the DNA increases monotonically linearly with the sample size, and also depicts an internal order.
PACS: 89.70.Cf – Entropy and other measures of information / 87.15.-v – Biomolecules: structure and physical properties / 87.14.gk – DNA
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