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darkknight:

what are some potential effects of insertion and deletion for gene mutations

justjm:

Insertions and deletions lead to a shift in nucleotide pairs, and typically they would interfere with codon grouping. This leads to a frameshift mutation, where the mRNA is read incorrectly for the remainder of the codons.

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