The question of natural selection against mutable-to-terminator codons.

doi:10.1093/jhered/82.1.77

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The question of natural selection against mutable-to-terminator codons.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Shaw R F

Abstract excerpt

Codons that differ from a terminator triplet by only a single base are sometimes thought, because of their greater risk of undergoing a harmful mutation, to be kept at a reduced frequency by natural selection. The present study on human genes shows that these codons are infrequent, but their low...

Topics

Adenosine
Codon
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Guanine
Humans
Mutation
Selection, Genetic
Terminator Regions, Genetic

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