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Fig. 5 | BMC Genomic Data

Fig. 5

From: Tandem repeats ubiquitously flank and contribute to translation initiation sites

Fig. 5

Protein homology check of TISs flanked by human-specific and non-specific TRs. Every chart shows the distribution of similarity abundance between human proteins and three species, mouse, macaque, and chimpanzee, in the same gene. For each panel, the first row shows the distribution that was constructed by BLASTing human proteins, TISs of which were flanked by human-specific TRs. Similarly, the second row of each panel shows the distribution that was constructed by BLASTing human proteins, TISs of which were flanked by non-human-specific TRs. The Needleman Wunsch algorithm (upper panel) was used as a complementary measure to our two weighing methods (methods 1 and 2). In each method, we detected a significant difference in the distribution. TIS = translation initiation site, TR = tandem repeat

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