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

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Figure 3.
Figure 3.

Phylogenetic depth of human repeat conservation. Relative number of human amino acid tandem repeats and of noncoding repeats of similar DNA composition that may have originated at different time periods according to their patterns of conservation.

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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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