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  2. Mutational signatures - Wikipedia

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    The 16 possible mutation types of the substitution class C>A are shown as an example. Once the mutation catalog (e.g. counts for each of the 96 mutation types) of a tumor is obtained, there are two approaches to decipher the contributions of different mutational signatures to tumor genomic landscape:

  3. Missense mutation - Wikipedia

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    Missense mutation refers to a change in one amino acid in a protein, arising from a point mutation in a single nucleotide. Missense mutation is a type of nonsynonymous substitution in a DNA sequence. Two other types of nonsynonymous substitution are the nonsense mutations, in which a codon is changed to a premature stop codon that results in ...

  4. Mutation rate - Wikipedia

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    The human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10 −9 per basepair per year. [ 1 ] In genetics, the mutation rate is the frequency of new mutations in a single gene, nucleotide sequence, or organism over time. [ 2 ] Mutation rates are not constant and are not limited to a single type of mutation; there are many different types of ...

  5. Conservative replacement - Wikipedia

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    A conservative replacement (also called a conservative mutation or a conservative substitution or a homologous replacement) is an amino acid replacement in a protein that changes a given amino acid to a different amino acid with similar biochemical properties (e.g. charge, hydrophobicity and size). [1][2] Conversely, a radical replacement, or ...

  6. Single-nucleotide polymorphism - Wikipedia

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    The upper DNA molecule differs from the lower DNA molecule at a single base-pair location (a G/A polymorphism). In genetics and bioinformatics, a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP / snɪp /; plural SNPs / snɪps /) is a germline substitution of a single nucleotide at a specific position in the genome. Although certain definitions require the ...

  7. Mutation - Wikipedia

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    Three major single-chromosome mutations: deletion (1), duplication (2) and inversion (3). In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. [ 1 ] Viral genomes contain either DNA or RNA.

  8. Nonsynonymous substitution - Wikipedia

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    A nonsynonymous substitution is a nucleotide mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein. Nonsynonymous substitutions differ from synonymous substitutions, which do not alter amino acid sequences and are (sometimes) silent mutations. As nonsynonymous substitutions result in a biological change in the organism, they are subject to ...

  9. Substitution matrix - Wikipedia

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    Thus the observed substitutions (by point mutations) are considered to be accepted by natural selection. One PAM unit is defined as 1% of the amino acid positions that have been changed. To create a PAM1 substitution matrix, a group of very closely related sequences with mutation frequencies corresponding to one PAM unit is chosen.