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Mutation

"Mutation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the GENOTYPE and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mutation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mutation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 2805 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 147 publications in 2018
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