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Abstract
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.
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- Allelic Imbalance
- Base Pair Mismatch
- Chromosome Aberrations
- DNA Repeat Expansion
- Frameshift Mutation
- Gain of Function Mutation
- Gene Amplification
- Gene Duplication
- Genetic Suppression
- Genomic Instability
- Germ-Line Mutation
- INDEL Mutation
- Insertional Mutagenesis
- Loss of Function Mutation
- Missense Mutation
- Mutation Accumulation
- Mutation Rate
- Nonsense Codon
- Point Mutation
- Sequence Deletion
- Sequence Inversion
- Silent Mutation
- Synthetic Lethal Mutations
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- Mutations
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6 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.
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Indexing Annotation
drug-induced mutation = MUTATION (IM) + specific drug with pertinent qualif (IM); radiation-induced mutation = MUTATION (IM) + RADIATION EFFECTS or specific rad term (IM); /drug eff & /rad eff permitted only for eff of drugs or eff of rad on an already mutated organism or after mutation but read text carefully
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Mutation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009154. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009154
- Mutation. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation
- Mutation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42918