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The functional importance of disease-associated mutation

BACKGROUND: For many years, scientists believed that point mutations in genes are the genetic switches for somatic and inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis, phenylketonuria and cancer. Some of these mutations likely alter a protein's function in a manner that is deleterious, and they shou...

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Autores principales: Mooney, Sean D, Klein, Teri E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC128831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12220483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-3-24