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nonsense-mediated decay

noun

Definitions

  1. A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons…

    A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonsense-mediated decay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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