germline mutation
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mutation
noun
uk/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/us/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/
the way in which genes change and produce ...
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The majority of recurrences associated with agermlinemutationoccurred in a different quadrant of the breast and had distinct pathological features.
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Minisatellites are tandem repeat arrays that show a very high spontaneous mutation rate, thus providing a very efficient monitoring system forgermlinemutation.
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Two final chapters on cancer and teratogenesis remind us that transcription factors may cause disease by other mechanisms thangermlinemutation.
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Our current data suggest that mutation induction is only attributable to the spermatogonia stage of spermatogenesis, providing evidence for a meiotic origin of murine minisatellitegermlinemutation.
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They are frequently hypervariable with respect to allele length as a result of high rates of complex and incompletely understood recombination-basedgermlinemutationevents that alter the repeat copy number.
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Itsgermlinemutationmay also be responsible for the development of hyperparathyroidism and pheochromocytoma.
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The children had a congenitalgermlinemutationwhich was combined with an early lifetime somatic mutation to cause a tumour.
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Agermlinemutationgives rise to a constitutional mutation in the offspring, that is, a mutation that is present in virtually every cell.
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As pedigree methods record mutations in living subjects, the mutation rates from pedigree studies are closer to thegermlinemutationrate.
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Agermlinemutationgives rise to a "constitutional mutation" in the offspring, that is, a mutation that is present in every cell.
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