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![Pronounciation of
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A particular kind of mutation: production of one or more copies of any piece of DNA, including a gene or even an entire chromosome.
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Dr. William Pavan, of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Laboratory of Genetic Disease Research, defines duplication.
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cancer,
chromosome,
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA),
gene,
genome,
mutation,
phenotype,
protein |
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