| nonsense mutation |
A defect in the gene that results in the loss of a letter in the code that usually alters the formation of its protein product. Thus, a nonsense mutation can lead to a shorter enzyme missing its most important parts for proper function.
Ãâó: www.lsdn.com/glance_glossary.shtml
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| nonsense mutation |
A type of mutation that changes an amino acid codon to one of the three stop codons, resulting in a shorter and usually nonfunctional protein.
Ãâó: www.bscs.org/onco/glossary.htm
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| nonsense mutation |
is any change in DNA that causes a (termination) codon to replace a codon representing an amino acid.
Ãâó: www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/docs/HGSC_glossary.html
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| nonsense mutation |
a mutation that alters a codon such that it no longer codes for an amino acid but instead codes for a stop signal (a signal that tells the protein-making machinery to stop making protein)
Ãâó: www-hsc.usc.edu/~dconti/notes/genetic_terms.htm
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| nonsense c.’s |
chain-termination c's.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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