Silence of the mutations.

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A major presumption of the neutral theory of evolution proposed by Kimura in the late 1960s is that synonymous mutations (mutations that do not alter the primary sequence of a protein due to the redundancy of the genetic code) are supposed to be selectively neutral or nearly neutral (Kimura 1968). However, Shen et al. (2022) have recently demonstrated that 75.9% of synonymous mutations in genes involved in...

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