About The Medical Condition Frame Shift Mutation

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Frame Shift Mutation

Frame Shift Mutation Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Frame Shift Mutation Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Frame Shift Mutation?

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

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