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READING FRAME-SHIFT MUTATION [1 record]

Record 1 2012-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genetics
DEF

A mutation resulting from an addition or subtraction that is not an exact multiple of 3 base pairs in a coding sequence.

Key term(s)
  • frame-shift mutation
  • reading frame-shift mutation
  • reading frame-shift

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génétique
DEF

Mutation provoquée par des délétions ou des insertions qui ne sont pas des multiples de trois paires de bases, ce qui change le cadre de lecture.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Genética
DEF

Mutación que cambia el marco de lectura del ADN, bien por inserción o por deleción de nucleótidos.

OBS

Dado que los codones están organizados en tripletes, esta mutación se produce cuando el número de nucleótidos implicado no es múltiplo de tres.

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