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Concept information
Preferred term
mutation
Type
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Topic
Definition
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Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the genotype and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.
Source: Medical Subject Headings 2012
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- allelic imbalance
- amino acid deletion
- amino acid substitution
- base pair mismatch
- frameshift mutation
- gain-of-function mutation
- genetic instability
- genetic polymorphism
- induced mutation
- loss-of-function mutation
- missense mutation
- mutagenesis
- mutation accumulation
- nonsense mutation
- point mutation
- sequence deletion
- somatic mutation
- spontaneous mutation
Synonyms
- mutations
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/7777
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