frameshift mutation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-002668",
  "term": "frameshift mutation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A type of mutation in which a number of nucleotides deleted from or inserted into a protein coding sequence is not divisible by three, thereby causing an alteration in the reading frames of the entire coding sequence downstream of the mutation. These mutations may be induced by certain types of mutagens or may occur spontaneously.",
  "synonyms": [
    "frame shift mutation",
    "out-of-frame deletion",
    "out-of-frame insertion",
    "out-of-frame mutation"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "mutation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2012",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "desplazamiento del marco de lectura"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/frameshift-mutation/"
}