Translational read‐through of a nonsense mutation in <i>ATP7A</i> impacts treatment outcome in Menkes disease

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Protein translation ends when a stop codon in a gene's messenger RNA transcript enters the ribosomal A site. Mutations that create premature stop codons (nonsense mutations) typically cause premature translation termination. An alternative outcome, read-through translation (or nonsense suppression), is well known in prokaryotic, viral, and yeast genes but has not been clearly documented in humans except in the...

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