It suggests that mutations such as D136A which exhibit in vitro very high constitutive activity and therefore which should confer more severe symptoms have never been reported since they are probably not compatible with life.
Thus, a mutator mutation must confer a minimum level of genetic instability to be relevant.
There is general agreement that women with a higher lifetime risk of breast cancer, such as that conferred by a BRCA mutation, should undergo earlier, more frequent screening with consideration of additional imaging modalities.
"The results indicate that the mutation might confer a preference for alcohol," Gochman said.
Functional data indicate the MEK1 mutation may confer alteration of activation through the MAPK pathway.
Like somatic mutations, most CFC germline mutations confer an increased kinase activity, while some are kinase impaired.
With this information, it should be possible to identify mutations that confer desirable traits in pennycress using mutation-based breeding tools such as TILLING, DeTILLING, and CRISPR-Cas.
In the future, combining such an approach with drug selection should make it possible to identify mutations that confer drug resistance before they appear in patients.
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The 7-day enrichment of a mutation that confers a 10% advantage should increase its relative frequency by about 25-fold, and smaller effect mutations would be enriched to a lesser extent.
