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point mutation
noun
- a change in a single base in a nucleotide sequence.
point mutation
- 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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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.
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.
It needs only one point mutation to develop resistance to certain antiviral drugs, and such mutations happen all the time.
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.
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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