NALT

Preferred term

frameshift mutation

Topic

A type of mutation in which a number of nucleotides deleted from or inserted into a protein coding sequence is not divisible by three, thereby causing an alteration in the reading frames of the entire coding sequence downstream of the mutation. These mutations may be induced by certain types of mutagens or may occur spontaneously.

mutation

frame shift mutation
out-of-frame deletion
out-of-frame insertion
out-of-frame mutation

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

15761

Spanish

desplazamiento del marco de lectura

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/41398

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 7/6/17