Mutation bias refers to a predictable or systematic difference in rates for different types of mutation. The types are most often defined by the molecular...
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theory of arrival biases distinctively predicts the possibility of mutation-biased adaptation. Direct evidence for the theory comes from laboratory studies...
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Evolution (redirect from Mutation-selection)
events of mutation that introduce new alleles, mutational and developmental biases in the introduction of variation (arrival biases) can impose biases on evolution...
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horizontal gene transfer or mutational bias), guanine-cytosine skew (GC skew, reflecting strand-specific mutational bias), amino acid conservation, protein...
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has been described as mutationism and an extreme view by the zoologist Andy Gardner. Cases of mutation bias are cited by mutationism advocates of the extended...
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single type of mutation; there are many different types of mutations. Mutation rates are given for specific classes of mutations. Point mutations are a class...
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In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain...
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Molecular evolution (section Mutation)
content has been thought to reflect mutational tendencies. Mutational biases also contribute to codon usage bias. Although such hypotheses are often associated...
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Population genetics (section Mutation)
mutation may become very important, particularly mutation biases, predictable differences in the rates of occurrence for different types of mutations...
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usage bias that is observed in many species. Mutations that cause the altered codon to produce an amino acid with similar functionality (e.g. a mutation producing...
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efficiency associated with the most available tRNAs or simply mutational bias. If these mutations influence the rate of translation or an organism’s ability...
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1093/bioinformatics/bti180. PMID 15673565. Amos W (September 2010). "Mutation biases and mutation rate variation around very short human microsatellites revealed...
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Matthew T.; Fenster, Charles B.; Weigel, Detlef (February 2022). "Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana". Nature. 602 (7895):...
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phenotypes, thus, implying a bias in the types of phenotypes that can be produced assuming equal amounts of variation (genetic mutations) in both models. In a...
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Professorship in 2011. Petrov is best known for his work on measurements of mutational biases, quantification of natural selection using genomic data, and experimental...
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Penetrance (section Ascertainment bias)
disease-causing mutation is the proportion of individuals with the mutation that exhibit clinical symptoms among all individuals with such mutation. For example:...
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Synonymous substitution (redirect from Synonymous mutation)
substitutions and mutations affecting noncoding DNA are often considered silent mutations; however, it is not always the case that the mutation is silent. Since...
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Mutational signatures are characteristic combinations of mutation types arising from specific mutagenesis processes such as DNA replication infidelity...
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BRCA mutation is a mutation in either of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are tumour suppressor genes. Hundreds of different types of mutations in these...
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Weng ML, Imbert E, Ågren J, Rutter MT, Fenster CB, Weigel D (2022). "Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana". Nature. 602 (7895):...
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century has supported the mechanism and existence of mutation-biased adaptation (a form of mutationism), meaning that constrained orthogenesis is now seen...
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3%). The nucleotide bias arises from the mutation of guanines and cytosines to adenines and uracils, respectively. The mutation of CG dinucleotides is...
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were found to be protected from mutations, and beneficial mutations were found to be more likely, i.e. mutation was "biased in a way that benefits the plant"...
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can affect trait evolution. This term can encompass genetic drift, mutation bias, or meiotic drive. Additionally, this term can encompass the effects...
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Goetting-Minesky, M. Paula; Makova, Kateryna D. (2006). "Mammalian Male Mutation Bias: Impacts of Generation Time and Regional Variation in Substitution Rates"...
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Bernard Rensch. Recent work has supported the mechanism and existence of mutation biased adaptation, meaning that limited local orthogenesis is now seen as...
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in-frame, mimicking the effects of [PSI+], than would be expected from mutation bias or than are observed in other taxa that do not form the [PSI+] prion...
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Stop codon (redirect from Amber mutation)
colors. Nonsense mutations that created this premature stop codon were later called opal mutations or umber mutations. Nonsense mutations are changes in...
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1038/s41587-023-01845-1. PMC 10818020. PMID 37500913. Amos W (September 2010). "Mutation biases and mutation rate variation around very short human microsatellites revealed...
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González-Candelas F, Young DB, Gagneux S, et al. (September 2019). "Genome-wide mutational biases fuel transcriptional diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex"...
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