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Polarity of Translation

Medical Definition:	Decrease in the synthesis of proteins specified by genes distal to the operator and to the site of a nonsense, frameshift, deletion or insertion mutation in an operon. A mutation which produces polarity is called a polar mutation or a polarity mutation.
Also Called:	Polarity of Transcription
Previously Indexed:	Mutation (1966-1979),Operon (1969-1979),Transcription, Genetic (1973-1979),Translation, Genetic (1973-1979)

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