"Suppression, Genetic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mutation process that restores the wild-type PHENOTYPE in an organism possessing a mutationally altered GENOTYPE. The second "suppressor" mutation may be on a different gene, on the same gene but located at a distance from the site of the primary mutation, or in extrachromosomal genes (EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE).
| Descriptor ID |
D013489
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.365.590.835 G05.558.835
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| Concept/Terms |
Suppression, Genetic- Suppression, Genetic
- Genetic Suppression
- Genetic Suppressions
- Suppressions, Genetic
Suppressor Mutation- Suppressor Mutation
- Mutation, Suppressor
- Mutations, Suppressor
- Suppressor Mutations
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