mutation

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It involves two PCR reactions and then you run it through sequencing machines and it pulls out whether the mutation is there or not.

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  1. noun The act or process of being altered or changed.
  2. noun An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
  3. noun Genetics A change of the DNA sequence within a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the parental type.
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  • What I'm searching for is a durable mutation -- that's what all of us are searching for. —  Scott McCloud on comics
  • Our poetry is our mutation, our life. —  Philippe Starck thinks deep on design
  • The preponderance of Asians leads Stapledon to propose that the starting point for the mutation was somewhere in Central Asia, perhaps Mongolia, which is reasonable enough, but I don't see any genetic trail that could have led from the Asian steppes to France, Sweden, or England. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • This mutation was absent in 350 unaffected French control subjects. —  New England Journal of Medicine
  • This mutation is in progress at the very moment when, to use Toynbee's expression, "an external proletariat" is forming on the southern and western shores of the Mediterranean Sea. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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  1. Middle English mutacioun, from Old French mutacion, from Latin mūtātiō, mūtātiōn-, from past participle of mūtāre, to change; see mutate.

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  1. from Middle English mutacioun, from Old French mutacion, mutation, French mutation = Spanish mutacion = Portuguese mutação = Italian mutazione, from Latin mutatio (n-), a changing, from mutare, past participle mutatus, change: see mute.
 

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