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The G Mutation That Was Found in Manx Cats That Means They Don't Have a Tail?
Most mutations that we understand well are so called coding mutations, which mean they happen directly in the sequences that give rise to the protein product of the gene. This particular mutation is a transposon insertion, or jumping gean as sometimes called. It's its 300 letters of d and a, but it doesn't go into the codin region. And this is why, this is why it was missed, ok, for all these years. I mean, sure lots of other people are about this difference between the apes and the rest of the animals,. People just tend not to look outside the coding region because its a way more difficult to understand what's happening there.
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