A nonsense mutation is a change in the polynucleotide sequence that results in the production of a protein chain terminating codon that prematurely stops protein synthesis during the process of translation. As a result of a nonsense mutation, instead...

In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often nonfunctional protein...