A polar mutation affects expression of downstream genes or operons. It can also affect the expression of the gene in which it occurs, if it occurs in a transcribed region. These mutations tend to occur early within the sequence of genes and can be nonsense, frameshift, or insertion mutations. Polar mutations are found only in organisms containing ...
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<molecular biology> A mutation in a single gene which affects the rate of expression of other genes that are near it on a chromosome. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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