Nonsynonymous substitution
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title:
Nonsynonymous substitution
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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 natural selection. Nonsynonymous substitutions at a certain locus can be compared to the synonymous substitutions at the same locus to obtain the Ka/Ks ra
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Nucleotide mutation that alters the amino acid sequence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsynonymous_substitution
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2022-08-04T18:55:56Z
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