Collocations withmutation
These are words often used in combination withmutation.
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deleterious mutation
We were therefore under the genomic deleterious mutation framework with no constraint on the total number of mutable loci in the genome.
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genetic mutation
One solution has been to assume that syntax arrived all at once, perhaps enabled by a genetic mutation.
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germline mutation
The majority of recurrences associated with a germline mutation occurred in a different quadrant of the breast and had distinct pathological features.
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mutation rate
In this paper, the mutation rate, or the probability to conduct a mutation depends on the identity of parents and offspring.
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nonsense mutation
Homozygosity for an enzyme-inactivating nonsense mutation commonly correlates with the nonsecretor phenotype.
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random mutation
First, in biological selection, the source of variability is well identified: it is the random mutation of the genetic material, followed by genetic mixing.
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recessive mutation
The first cases described were offspring of consanguineous parents who were both carriers of a recessive mutation.
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