Associations to the word «Missense»
Noun
- Mutation
- Deletion
- Phenotype
- Insertion
- Allele
- Nucleotide
- Nonsense
- Substitution
- Gene
- Mrna
- Carcinoma
- Syndrome
- Chromosome
- Deficiency
- Subunit
- Protein
- Residue
- Domain
- Alteration
- Kinase
- Genes
- Locus
- Receptor
- Termination
- Abnormality
- Dna
- Patient
- Ligand
- Binding
- Mu
- Defect
- Variant
- Enzyme
- Sequence
- Correlation
- Lesion
- Onset
- Atp
- Disease
- Acid
- Cause
- Disorder
- Tumor
- Frame
- Synthesis
- Diagnosis
- Beta
- Repeat
- Substrate
- Affect
- Function
- Type
- Molecule
Adjective
Wiktionary
MISSENSE, noun. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
MISSENSE MUTATION, noun. A point mutation that results in the substitution of one amino acid by another.
MISSENSE MUTATIONS, noun. Plural of missense mutation
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.