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. 2009 Sep 24;5:4. doi: 10.1186/1745-7580-5-4

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Autoantigenic sequences with bacterial-human sequence matches. The frequency of proteins that contain a given number of bacterial-human exact sequence matches (min. 9 aa) is shown for autoantigens and non-autoantigenic SwissProt entries. Significantly more autoantigens have at least one bacterial-human exact sequence match than non-autoantigenic human SwissProt entries. Furthermore, autoantigens also bear significantly more matches as compared to non-autoantigenic ones (p < 0.05, Kolmogorov-Smirnov).