frameshiftmutation

frameshiftmutation
frame·shift mutation (frāmʹshĭft') n.
A mutation in a DNA chain that occurs when the number of nucleotides inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three, so that every codon beyond the point of insertion or deletion is read incorrectly during translation.

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