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Transversion

• refers to the replacement of purine by pyrimidine, for example (eg, A->C), or vice versa (eg, T->G). This could result in missense mutation.

• to view a study on thymine to guanine transversion, see: http://www.biology-online.org/articles/abstract-a_new_leu253arg_mutation_in_the_rp2_gene_in_a_japanese_family_with_x-linked_retinitis_pigmentosa.htm