Genetics. A mutation resulting from an addition or subtraction of a number of nucleotides that is not an exact multiple of 3 in a coding sequence. From this point onwards, the codons are read out of phase. The reading frame of the gene is changed, and a completely different set of amino acids is made into protein.
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