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

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Figure 4.
Figure 4.

Alignment of the alanine repeat in HOXD13. The repeat was classified as Amniota as it was conserved in all mammalian species and in chicken (G. gallus), but not in frog (X. tropicalis) or zebrafish (D. rerio).

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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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