Sentences with phrase «smallest point mutation»
Even the smallest point mutation can cause a normally functioning protein to become useless or less efficient.
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«Although this mutation only exists in a small percentage of cases, this discovery points to a potential therapeutic avenue for these patients.»
But in genes, differences as small as a point mutation — the alteration of a single base pair — can lead to disease.
When Parker and colleagues at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, MD, went looking for gene responsible for little legs across all these breeds, they expected to find a «point mutation,» a small change in the DNA sequence.