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A missense mutation is when the change of a single base pair causes the substitution of a different amino acid in the resulting protein.This amino acid substitution may have no effect, or it may render the protein nonfunctional. single base pair substitution that results in the translation of a different amino acid at that position. Definition from: GeneReviews from the University of Washington and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Silent mutations - are caused by a point mutation & have no effect of the function because they code for the same amino acid. Missense mutations - are caused by a point mutation & result in a different amino acid to be placed in the protein. Nonsense mutations - a caused by a point mutation & cause a stop where there should not be one. Frameshift mutations - are caused by an insertion or deletion of a nucleotide causing the reading frame to shift & the protein to be too long or too short.