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Mutation

Definition
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Heritable DNA sequence alteration; in GWAS often contrasted with polymorphism by frequency or functional classification.

Topics
Core genetics
Related
Genetic variant Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Indel

Why it matters in GWAS

GWAS hits are interpreted through gene structure, regulation, and variant consequence; molecular vocabulary connects association statistics to mechanism.

Example usage

"Functional follow-up used Mutation evidence to connect statistical signals with molecular mechanism."

Genetic variant Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Indel
Related-term network

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Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Griffiths AJF, et al. (2015). An Introduction to Genetic Analysis. W. H. Freeman.
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