nonsense mutations

What Is An Example Of A Missense Mutation?

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What Is An Example Of A Missense Mutation? A common and well-known example of a missense mutation is sickle-cell anemia, a blood disease. People with sickle-cell anemia have a missense mutation at a single point in the DNA. This missense mutation calls for a different amino acid, and affects the overall shape of the protein

What Gene Mutations Have The Greatest Effect?

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What Gene Mutations Have The Greatest Effect? At the short end of the spectrum, indels of one or two base pairs within coding sequences have the greatest effect, because they will inevitably cause a frameshift (only the addition of one or more three-base-pair codons will keep a protein approximately intact). Which gene mutations are the