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mutation

[myoo-tey-shuhn] / myuˈteɪ ʃən /


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Only around one percent of people in northern Europe have the necessary mutation.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Even before the researchers found out the brother had a CCR5 mutation, they had some hope that the Oslo patient's HIV could be cured.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

“I think this movie is a strange mutation of the camp tradition.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The mutation occurs in a gene called grin2a, which had previously been flagged in large genetic studies of schizophrenia.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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