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point mutation

noun

Genetics.
  1. a change in a single base in a nucleotide sequence.


point mutation

  1. A mutation in which one nucleotide is added, deleted, or replaced by another. Point mutations include missense, nonsense, frameshift, and silent mutations.
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Origin of point mutation1

First recorded in 1920–25
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In 2019, Liu, who is also an author of the Nature Biotechnology study, developed a technique called prime editing, which enables any kind of point mutation to be introduced, as well as insertions and deletions.

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Even so, scientists still don’t know how long a proton would need to stay in its unstable position for such a point mutation to actually occur, Hay noted.

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It needs only one point mutation to develop resistance to certain antiviral drugs, and such mutations happen all the time.

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Amplifications of both c-Ki-ras with a point mutation and c-myc in a primary pancreatic cancer and its metastatic tumors in lymph nodes.

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Errors in the genetic code in which one pair swaps for another, a change called a point mutation, can be disastrous.

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