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WHAT DOES SOMATIC MUTATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

somatic mutation

Mutation

In genetics, a mutation is a change of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal genetic element. Mutations result from unrepaired damage to DNA or to RNA genomes, errors in the process of replication, or from the insertion or deletion of segments of DNA by mobile genetic elements. Mutations may or may not produce discernible changes in the observable characteristics of an organism. Mutations play a part in both normal and abnormal biological processes including: evolution, cancer, and the development of the immune system. Mutation can result in several different types of change in sequences. Mutations in genes can either have no effect, alter the product of a gene, or prevent the gene from functioning properly or completely. Mutations can also occur in nongenic regions. One study on genetic variations between different species of Drosophila suggests that, if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, the result is likely to be harmful, with an estimated 70 percent of amino acid polymorphisms that have damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.

Definition of somatic mutation in the English dictionary

The definition of somatic mutation in the dictionary is a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism. It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction.

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Synonyms and antonyms of somatic mutation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «somatic mutation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOMATIC MUTATION

Find out the translation of somatic mutation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of somatic mutation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «somatic mutation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

体细胞突变
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mutación somática
570 millions of speakers

English

somatic mutation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दैहिक उत्परिवर्तन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

طفرة جسدية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соматическая мутация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mutação somática
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শমিত মিউটেশন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mutation somatique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mutasi somatik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

somatische Mutation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

体細胞変異
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

체세포 돌연변이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mutasi somatik
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đột biến soma
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சற்றே மாற்றியமைத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शारीरिक म्यूटेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Somatik mutasyon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mutazione somatica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mutacja somatyczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

соматическая мутація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mutație somatică
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σωματική μετάλλαξη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

somatiese mutasie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

somatisk mutation
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

somatisk mutasjon
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOMATIC MUTATION»

Discover the use of somatic mutation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to somatic mutation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Molecular Biology and Biotechnology: A Comprehensive Desk ...
Somatic Mutation Theory Hypothesis that aging is caused by the accumulation of deleterious mutations in the somatic cells of an organism. Somatic cells are all cells other than the reproductive cells; thus somatic mutations are not heritable.
Robert A. Meyers, 1995
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Somatic Hypermutation in V-Regions
at the problem as a bacterial geneticist, giving the somatic mutation idea molecular rigor and precision. In the process, he expanded and fleshed out Burnet's half-formed concepts into a set of nine testable propositions. The most important, for ...
E. J. Steele, 1991
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Evolutionary Biology of Aging
These explanations are not incompatible with each other, but the first at least calls into question the relevance of in vitro somatic mutation rate estimates. Perhaps the best data bearing on the frequency of somatic cell DNA damage come from ...
Irvine Michael R. Rose Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, 1990
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Developmental Biology and Cancer
Tyzzer proposed that the rate of this somatic mutation would be constant throughout life. This would explain how a tumor could arise in otherwise normal tissue. However, it did not explain the observed phenomenon of increasing susceptibility ...
Gisele M. Hodges, Charles Rowlatt, 1993
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Biology of Aging : Observations and Principles: Observations ...
a synthesis probably due to a somatic mutation in a few cells of that organism. Isoleucine assays were done on the hemoglobins of two groups of individuals: those accidentally exposed to radiation (from an atomic bomb test) as youths and  ...
Robert Arking Professor of Biological Science Wayne State University, 2006
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Molecular Genetics of Immunoglobulin
T cells and somatic mutation A large body of data has been amassed indicating that the structure of antibodies elicited by a T cell dependent form of an antigenic determinant varies substantially in comparison to a T cell independent form of ...
F. Calabi, M.S. Neuberger, 1987
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Human B Cell Populations
Within GC, the Isotype Switching Machinery Is Triggered after the Onset of Somatic Mutation [21] Previous studies have demonstrated that somatic mutation and isotype switch are two independent processes [36]. An isotype switch can occur ...
Manlio Ferrarini, Federico Caligaris-Cappio, 1997
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Crafting Science: A Sociohistory of the Quest for the ...
Efforts to explain carcinogenesis through a control mechanism followed, especially in the 1950s, the somatic mutation theory mentioned earlier in this chapter. In 1912 Theodor Boveri proposed that abnormalities of chromosomes might be a ...
Joan H. Fujimura, 1996
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Hematopoiesis : A Developmental Approach: A Developmental ...
This also suggests that apoptosis in B cell maturation is triggered before somatic mutation, a hypothesis that has been supported by in vivo observations. Centroblasts are characterized by their GC phenotype and their location in the GC dark ...
Harvard Medical School Leonard I. Zon Associate Professor, 2001
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The Variation and Adaptive Expression of Antibodies
The Somatic Mutation Theory Then Possibility No. 3 is knocked on the head. There remain Possibilities No. 1 and 2. Following the methods inculcated at the University of which I have the honour to be a member, we will now examine severally ...
George P. Smith, 1973

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOMATIC MUTATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term somatic mutation is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fluxion Biosciences and Swift Biosciences Announce Jointly …
... clinical research designed to detect somatic mutations from a routine blood draw. ... Swift's Accel-Amplicon 56G Oncology Panel provides sensitive mutation ... «MarketWatch, May 15»
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Cancer-Driving Mutations Common in Normal Skin Cells
Addressing how somatic mutations may accumulate in normal tissue, the team, led by Campbell and Philip Jones of the University of Cambridge's Medical ... «The Scientist, May 15»
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Epigenetic Drivers of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
With next-generation sequencing, it is possible to distinguish between de novo mutations that drive cancer and those that are "along for the ride. «Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Apr 15»
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Heritable ETV6 mutation is genetic cause of acute lymphoblastic …
Porter explains that somatic mutation of the gene ETV6 requires the presence of ... This study is one of two new reports to show that "germline" mutation of ETV6, ... «Science Codex, Mar 15»
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Mutated ATRX gene linked to brain tumors potential biomarker for …
A somatic mutation in the ATRX gene has recently been shown as a potential molecular marker for aggressive brain tumors, such as gliomas, neuroblastomas ... «Medical Xpress, Jan 15»
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Tracking subtle brain mutations, systematically
The technique picks up somatic mutations that affect just a fraction of the brain's cells, in a "mosaic" pattern. It also allows "lineage tracing," showing when during ... «PR Newswire, Jan 15»
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Study Uses Novel Algorithm to ID Rare Somatic Mutations with …
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from Brown University and other institutions have published a study in which they used an algorithm called HotNet2 ... «GenomeWeb, Jan 15»
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Clonal Hematopoiesis with Somatic Mutations Up with Age
(HealthDay News) — Clonal hematopoiesis with somatic mutations is increasingly common with aging, according to two studies published online November 26 ... «Monthly Prescribing Reference, Dec 14»
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Precancerous state found in blood
These two new studies instead looked at somatic mutations — mutations that ... some but not all — of the somatic mutations that are present in blood cancers. «Harvard Gazette, Nov 14»
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Somatic Mutations in the ATRX Gene Reported for the First Time in …
Somatic mutations in the ATRX gene are observed in about 13% of pheochromocytomas/paragangliomas, the first such report of somatic ATRX mutations in ... «OncLive, Oct 14»

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