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polycytosine en · NOUN

Etymology

From poly- + cytosine.

Meanings

1. A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base
   • Length heteroplasmy occured^([sic]) frequently within the polycytosine stretches of HVS-I (anywhere between positions 16188 and 16195) and HVS-II (around position 310) due to replication slippage when a specific minimum number of cytosine residues are present [8, 14 ]. 2015 August 12, “Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing of Entire Mitochondrial Genomes and the Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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