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Point Mutation

"Point 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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A mutation caused by the substitution of one nucleotide for another. This results in the DNA molecule having a change in a single base pair.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Point Mutation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Point Mutation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 180 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 1997
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