All ribosomal RNAs and 45S spacers from humans to worms are packed with organism-specific motifs whose other copies are found predominantly in numerous nervous system genes including many associated with human disorders
Isidore Rigoutsos, Stepan A. Nersisyan, Eric R. Londin…·Phillipe Loher
The paper identifies primate-specific motifs in human rRNAs and 45S spacers that are also found in nervous system genes linked to disorders like autism and schizophrenia.