Nonsense mutation

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Nonsense mutation
In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein product.
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Nonsense mutation
A change in a DNA that prematurely stops the eading of messenger RNA. A nonsense mutation creates a stop codon (a triplet of bases that signals stop).


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Nonsense mutation
A mutation that changes an amino acid specifying codon to one of the three termination (stop) codons.

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