Sentence examples for a spontaneous mutation from inspiring English sources

Others can occur as a spontaneous mutation.

"I think the correct characterization of it is that it was a spontaneous mutation," Gurry said.

Mice with a spontaneous mutation in the gene encoding leptin (chromosome 6) that leads to decreased leptin production.

A spontaneous mutation of integrin alpha IIb beta 3 (platelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa) helps define a ligand binding site.

Tamiflu resistance that did spread in seasonal flu emerged last year from a spontaneous mutation known as H274Y on the N gene.

It is not known if she herself inherited such a gene, which appears on an X chromosome, or if it was a spontaneous mutation in her genome.

Blood oranges were the result of a spontaneous mutation of the sweet orange.

They didn't know why the bacteria weren't killed by colistin — it could have been a spontaneous mutation rather than the mcr-1 gene.

The striking thing about the case, the researchers said, was that neither parent had the gene defect, which therefore must have developed in the child as a spontaneous mutation.

This trait was due to a spontaneous mutation in the gene encoding the transcription factor Sox13 that caused an intrinsic defect in development of those cells in the neonatal thymus.

Some cases of Job's are inherited — a parent with the disorder has a 50percentt chance of having a child with it — while others occur as a result of a spontaneous mutation.