Transition (genetics)

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In genetics, a Transition is a mutation changing a purine to another purine nucleotide (A <-> G) or a pyrimidine to another pyrimidine nucleotide (C <-> T). Approximately two out of every three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are transitions.

They can be caused by oxidative deamination and tautomerization.[1]

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  1. ^ http://www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/3107/Topics/Mutations.html

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