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Serum starvation enhances nonsense mutation readthrough.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Dec 2019
Wittenstein Amnon, Caspi Michal, David Yifat, Shorer Yamit, Nadar-Ponniah Prathamesh T, Rosin-Arbesfeld Rina
Abstract excerpt
Of all genetic mutations causing human disease, premature termination codons (PTCs) that result from splicing defaults, insertions, deletions, and point mutations comprise around 30%. From these mutations, around 11% are a substitution of a single nucleotide that change a codon into a premature termination codon. These types of mutations affect several million patients suffering from a large variety of genetic...
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