Sentence examples for recent mutation from inspiring English sources

The genetic signature of the extra copy suggests it may be a relatively recent mutation, he says.

It is possible that type L may be a recent mutation from subtype M25 through an 6 bp insertion at position 116 117 (V5), and deletion at position 600 601 (V20) (Tables 3, 4).

One implication of this realization is that recent mutation may have a greater influence on disease susceptibility or protection than is conferred by variations that arose in distant ancestors.

The change is either a result of selection favoring a recent mutation or a previously rare genotype.

The latter is also consistent with recent mutation studies in Kv channels [4], [33], as well as in Ca+2 activated channels [34] where its linker was also shown to regulate ionic currents.

Thus, the pathways detected by GIENA are supported by recent mutation data.

At any given moment, the population is laden with a portfolio of recent mutations, each of whose days are numbered.

This means recent mutations can be spotted because they are still linked to the same neighbouring bits of DNA as they were when they first appeared.

Having finally come up with the password – complete with recent mutations of ampersands and exclamation marks and upper and lower case letters and barnacles of numeric additions (first phone number? gym locker combo?) once created on a cheerful whim and now half-forgotten at painful leisure – I was faced with an unexpected conundrum.

(The sudden fall-off at the end is caused because the linkage-disequilibrium method cannot easily detect very recent mutations, rather than by a sudden reduction in the rate of evolution).

However, this statement is based on averages, and locally, large variations or ruptures in LD pattern can be observed, because of recent mutations in some lineages, for example.