- reading frameshift mutation
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Medical dictionary. 2011.
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Frameshift mutation — A frameshift mutation (also called a framing error) is a genetic mutation caused by indels, ie. insertion or deletion of a number of nucleotides that is not evenly divisible by three from a DNA sequence. Due to the triplet nature of gene… … Wikipedia
frameshift mutation — a mutation resulting from an insertion or deletion in a coding sequence that is not an exact multiple of 3 base pairs, so that from the point of mutation onwards, the codons are read out of phase; the reading frame of the gene is changed, and a… … Medical dictionary
frameshift mutation — A mutation that changes the reading frame of a DNA, either by the insertion or the deletion of nucleotides. Because of the triplet nature of codons, this occurs if the number of nucleotides involved is not a multiple of three … Glossary of Biotechnology
Mutation — For other uses, see Mutation (disambiguation). Part of the Biology series on Evolution … Wikipedia
Mutation — Die rötliche Blattfarbe der Blutbuche (oben) entstand durch eine Mutation bei einer Rotbuche (unten). Ei … Deutsch Wikipedia
Reading frame — In biology, a reading frame is a contiguous and non overlapping set of three nucleotide codons in DNA or RNA. There are 3 possible reading frames in a mRNA strand and six in a double stranded DNA molecule due to the two strands from which… … Wikipedia
Frameshift — A directed change in translational reading frames that allows the production of a single protein from two or more overlapping genes. The process is programmed by the nucleotide sequence of the mRNA and is sometimes also affected by the secondary… … Wikipedia
frameshift — As used in genetics : a mutation that causes a sequence such that the reading frame groups of three bases in mRNA become out of register; the insertion or deletion of one or two bases, for example, would lead to an altered grouping of three bases … Medical dictionary
mutation — mutational, adj. mutationally, adv. /myooh tay sheuhn/, n. 1. Biol. a. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. b. an individual, species, or the like,… … Universalium
frameshift — adjective Date: 1967 relating to, being, or causing a mutation in which a number of nucleotides not divisible by three is inserted or deleted so as to change the reading frame of some triplet codons during genetic translation • frameshift noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
