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GENE MUTATIONS:

Gene mutations include either the replacement of one of the nucleotides with the nucleotide by the other nucleotide or may be by the addition or the deletion of the nucleotide (1). This would be explained as the sudden change or the alteration in nucleotide sequence of the DNA molecule, which would affect one pair of nucleotide or the bigger art of the gene on chromosome (5). These gene mutations can be further classified as:

1.      Point mutations: This results when there is difference in only one base pair of nucleotide which can also be called as base pair substitution and this is also one of the common type among the gene mutations (3). Point mutations can be again divided into three types of mutations namely Silent mutations, Nonsense mutations, Missense mutations.

a)      Silent Mutations:

This occurs when there is a change in codon for one amino acid molecule is swapped or is into the other codon of the same amino acid molecule and is also referred as “synonymous mutations”

b)      Missense Mutations:

This occurs when the codon of one amino acid is interchanged with the codon of another amino acid and can also be referred as non-synonymous mutations (2).

c)      Nonsense Mutations:

This occurs when the codon of the amino acid changes to the stop codon.

2.      Frameshift Mutations:

This kind of mutation results when there is addition or deletion of DNA base molecules changes the reading frame of the gene. This mutations would be insertions or deletions (5).

a)     Insertion:

This type of mutation differs the DNA base number in the gene by adding the part of the DNA (3).

b)    Deletion:

This type of mutation occurs when there is a difference in the number of DNA bases by eliminating a piece of DNA.

3.     Base substitution Mutations:

This type of mutations occur when there is replacement of one base pair by the other base pair. This mutations are further classified as Transition mutation and transversion mutation,

a)      Transition mutation:  This occurs when the base of one chemical is replaced by the other base of the same chemical molecule (4). It mainly happens when there is the transposing of the purine molecules i.e., A is transposed by G or by the transposing of pyrimidine molecules i.e., C by T in the DNA molecule.

b)      Tranvsersion Mutation: This occurs when there is an opposite replacement of a category base chemical by another base of the other category (3). This is mainly due to the incorrect replacement of the DNA bases i.e., when a pyrimidine is replaced with purine molecule.