Mesh term Mutation
Browse to parent terms:Genetic Variation
Description
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.Browse to child terms:
Allelic Imbalance
Base Pair Mismatch
Chromosome Aberrations
Codon, Nonsense
DNA Repeat Expansion
Frameshift Mutation
Gain of Function Mutation
Gene Amplification
Gene Duplication
Genomic Instability
Germ-Line Mutation
INDEL Mutation
Loss of Function Mutation
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Mutation Accumulation
Mutation Rate
Mutation, Missense
Point Mutation
Sequence Deletion
Sequence Inversion
Silent Mutation
Suppression, Genetic
Synthetic Lethal Mutations
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