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Transversion
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transversion [trans′vər·zhən]
(cell and molecular biology)
A mutation resulting from the substitution in deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid of a purine for a pyrimidine or a pyrimidine for a purine.
Transversion 

in biology, a type of mutation involving replacement of the nitrogenous base in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). In transversion, a purine base (adenine or thymine) is replaced by a pyrimidine base (guanine or cytosine), or vice versa.
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Sequence analysis of these PCR products showed a new A-T synonymous transversion mutation (Table) at pagA position bp 981, where the start ATG = bp 1, 2, 3, or position 2784 by using the coordinates described by Price et al.
Single nucleotide polymorphism typing of Bacillus anthracis from ... by Okinaka, Richard T.; Henrie, Melinda; Hill, Karen K.; Lowery, Kristin S.; Van Ert, Matthew; Pearson, / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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