Natural selection drives the accumulation of amino acid tandem repeats in human proteins

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Figure 2.
Figure 2.

Distribution of amino acid repeat types in proteins from different functional classes. The classes were defined from Gene Ontology annotations (see text). The percentage difference with respect to the distribution of amino acids in all human repeats in the orthologous data set is shown.

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  1. Published in Advance March 24, 2010, doi: 10.1101/gr.101261.109 Genome Res. 20: 745-754

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