Catalogues of somatic mutation from 21 breast cancers have yielded several insights into underlying mutational mechanisms.
The idea that mutation from common ancestors was the cause of species is not present in any of Aristotle's work.
At that stage of his mutation from unknown Canadian English teacher to communications swami and international celebrity, cryptic, Delphic, baffling, preposterous predictions were McLuhan's trump suit.
Witness its slow mutation from the pansexual, decadent Anne Rice creatures to the current permutations — promising anything from chaste eternal love to wild nocturnal escapades — and there you will find the true essence of immortality: adaptability.
In "eXistenZ," which essentially updates Mr. Cronenberg's vision of technology-driven mutation from the video age to a brave new world of virtual-reality gaming, there's an organic gun too: this one's made of bone and gristle, and looks nasty.
That meant that Mr. and Mrs. Davis were carriers of a genetic mutation linked to the disease, since a baby must inherit the mutation from each parent to develop the disease.
In the hope of gleaning life lessons, she reads her mother's post-collegiate journal from the seventies — "I think of myself a lot as this weird mutation from the 50's.
Yet something was afoot: there was rumbling under the arches around Clink Street, and Borough Market was beginning its mutation from a wholesale fruit-and-veg outlet into a retail chorizo and frothy coffee one.
Mutation can occur in two directions; mutation from wild type to mutant is called a forward mutation, and mutation from mutant to wild type is called a back mutation or reversion.
DNA sequencing of the family showed the deletion mutation from the mother and the point mutation from the father.
However, it was sometimes difficult to infer the effect of each mutation from the sequence only.
