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Expanding the Grammar of Biology
Michel Eduardo Beleza Yamagishi, Roberto Hirochi Herai
We metaphorically call "Grammar of Biology" a small field of genomic research, whose main objective is to search for intrinsic DNA sequence properties. Erwin Chargaff inaugurated i…
Chargaff's "Grammar of Biology": New Fractal-like Rules
Michel Eduardo Beleza Yamagishi, Roberto H. Herai
Chargaff once said that "I saw before me in dark contours the beginning of a grammar of Biology". In linguistics, "grammar" is the set of natural language rules, but we do not know…
BAK1 Gene Variation: the doubts remain
Michel E. Beleza Yamagishi
Dr. Hatchwell [2010] has proposed that the BAK1 gene variants were likely due to sequencing of a processed gene on chromosome 20. However, in response, Dr. Gottlieb and co-authors…
A Simpler Explanation to BAK1 Gene Variation in Aortic and Blood Tissues
Michel Eduardo Beleza Yamagishi
The explanation is that in aortic tissue (both diseased and nondiseased) a BAK1 pseudogene is expressed; while in the matching blood samples the actual BAK1 gene is expressed. This…