Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Core variability in substitution rates and the basal sequence characteristics of the human genome
Aleksandr B. Sahakyan, Shankar Balasubramanian
The paper analyzes retrotransposon remnants to determine substitution rates and shows a simulated genome matches human genome organization, with low BSP moieties having reduced somatic mutation rates in cancers.
DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-3440-5