Usually means: Mutation changes one amino acid.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. missense: Merriam-Webster
  2. missense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. missense: Collins English Dictionary
  4. missense: Wordnik
  5. missense: Wiktionary
  6. missense: Dictionary.com
  7. Missense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. missense: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. missense: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. missense: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (missense)

▸ noun:  (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
▸ verb:  To sense incorrectly.

Similar:
misrepair, missequence, misannotation, mistranslation, misinsertion, misexpression, mismethylation, misreplication, misphase, miscode, more...

Opposite:
nonsense, sense, silent mutation, synonymous mutation

Types:
nonsense, frameshift, more...

Phrases:
missense mutations, missense mutation, mutation, missense, mutation missense, more...

Adjectives:
novel, different, human, several, silent

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Similar:
misrepair, missequence, misannotation, mistranslation, misinsertion, misexpression, mismethylation, misreplication, misphase, miscode, more...

Opposite:
nonsense, sense, silent mutation, synonymous mutation

Types:
nonsense, frameshift, more...

Phrases:
missense mutations, missense mutation, mutation, missense, mutation missense, more...

Adjectives:
novel, different, human, several, silent



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