Concept information
Preferred term
Mutation
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Allelic Imbalance
- Base Pair Mismatch
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Codon, Nonsense
- DNA Repeat Expansion
- Frameshift Mutation
- Gain of Function Mutation
- Gene Amplification
- Gene Duplication
- Genomic Instability
- Germ-Line Mutation
- INDEL Mutation
- Loss of Function Mutation
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Mutation Accumulation
- Mutation, Missense
- Mutation Rate
- Point Mutation
- Sequence Deletion
- Sequence Inversion
- Silent Mutation
- Suppression, Genetic
- Synthetic Lethal Mutations
Note
- 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
Scope note
- 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.
History note
- 64
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009154
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