Are splicing mutations the most frequent cause of hereditary disease?
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- 2 March 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 579 (9), 1900-1903
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2005.02.047
Abstract
Disease‐causing point mutations are assumed to act predominantly through subsequent individual changes in the amino acid sequence that impair the normal function of proteins. However, point mutations...Keywords
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