Occurrence of MIR elements in the complete nucleotide sequence of human chromosome 22

The location of mammalian interspersed repeats (MIRs) and their density hav e been determined in the complete nucleotide sequence of human chromosome 2 2. The approach developed by us has allowed detection of 9675 MIRs at a sta tistically significant level, which by 15% exceeds the MIR number revealed by all previous approaches. It has been demonstrated that a considerable am ount of MIRs missed by the algorithms applied earlier occurs in known DNA s equences of the human genome. The study of the MIR density revealed substan tial irregularity of their distribution along the chromosome. The data on t he MIRs thus found and the computer program searching for diverged sequence s are available by E-mail: katrin2@mail.ru or katrin22@mtu-net.ru.