mutation
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Not everyone with this mutation develops disease, and this research helps explain why.
From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026
“I think this movie is a strange mutation of the camp tradition.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
In the new study, researchers created mice carrying a mutation in one of those genes, grin2a.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
A protective mutation identified in South Asia may point to mechanisms driving cardiovascular or metabolic disease worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Possibly he was imagining what it would be like to discover a whole new population of carriers of the 5-alpha-reductase mutation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing mutation
Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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Genetics - Middle School
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Life Science: Genetics and Evolution
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