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  • adjective Not synonymous

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Examples

  • Four novel nonsynonymous mutations were detected, one of which would produce premature termination of translation c.2686CT p.

    Another One Bites the Dust - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • They measured the fitness effect of the mutations as a ratio between synonymous (Ks) and nonsynonymous (Ka) amino acid substitutions (so they sequenced 13 mitochondrial genes and counted substitutions).

    Sex pays off - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • As a longtime sometime magician, I want to point out that distraction and misdirection are overlapping but nonsynonymous.

    Firedoglake » Killing ‘Em With Kindness? 2006

  • Missense mutations or nonsynonymous mutations is where a nucleotide is changed which results in a different amino acid.

    "Endless diversity" in bacterial genomes? - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • WDFY4 is a huge protein with unknown function but is predominantly expressed in primary and secondary immune tissues, and a nonsynonymous SNP in this gene was found to be highly associated with SLE susceptibility.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan none@example.com 2010

  • An automated routine identifying human nonsynonymous SNP amino acid missense substitutions for any MHC gene mined the NCBI SNP data base.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • For each transmission pair, selection within individuals was quantified using the ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions (ω = dN/dS).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hong Zhang et al. 2010

  • Sunyaev S, Hanke J, Aydin A, Wirkner U, Zastrow I, et al. (1999) Prediction of nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms in human disease-associated genes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sungsam Gong et al. 2010

  • Moreover, we identified that plasmid conjugative transfer genes and antibiotic resistance genes are more likely to suffer from positive selection, as indicated by the elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

  • Moreover, we identified that plasmid conjugative transfer genes and antibiotic resistance genes are more likely to suffer from positive selection, as indicated by the elevated rates of nonsynonymous substitution.

    Elites TV PLoS ONE 2010

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