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=== Mutation types === [[File:Different_Types_of_Mutations.png|thumb|381x381px|Examples of the various forms of '''point mutations''' that may exist within coding regions. Such alterations may or may not have phenotypic changes, depending on whether or not they code for different amino acids during translation.<ref>{{Citation|last=Jonsta247|title=English: Example of silent mutation|date=2013-05-10|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Different_Types_of_Mutations.png|access-date=2019-11-19}}</ref>]] There are various forms of mutations that can occur in coding regions. One form is [[silent mutation]]s, in which a change in nucleotides does not result in any change in amino acid after transcription and translation.<ref name=":3">Yang, J. (2016, March 23). What are Genetic Mutation? Retrieved from https://www.singerinstruments.com/resource/what-are-genetic-mutation/ .</ref> There also exist [[nonsense mutation]]s, where base alterations in the coding region code for a premature stop codon, producing a shorter final protein. [[Point mutation|Point mutations]], or single base pair changes in the coding region, that code for different amino acids during translation, are called [[missense mutation]]s. Other types of mutations include [[frameshift mutation]]s such as [[Insertion mutation|insertions]] or [[Deletion (genetics)|deletions]].<ref name=":3" />
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