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Table 2 Physicochemical Properties of the AARs in Positively Selected versus Non-Positively Selected Mammalian Genes

From: The expansion of amino-acid repeats is not associated to adaptive evolution in mammalian genes

 

Acidic

Basic

Polar

Hydrophobic

PSGs

10 (0.95)

0 (-1.08)

7 (-2.51)

17 (3.23)

non-PSGs

970 (-0.083)

154 (0.094)

2314 (0.22)

1031 (-0.28)

  1. Counts of amino acid categories using the Lenhinger classification for each AAR in PSGs and non-PSGs. Values shown in brackets correspond to the residuals for each cell obtained in a Pearson's χ2 test.
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BMC Genomics

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