Neurological Proteins Are Not Enriched For Repetitive Sequences

Proteins associated with disease and development of the nervous system are thought to contain repetitive, simple sequences. However, genome-wide surveys for simple sequences within proteins have revealed that repetitive peptide sequences are the most frequent shared peptide segments among eukaryotic proteins, including those of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which has few to no specialized developmental and neurological proteins. It is therefore of …