Question as Answered: What is the effect of a nonsense mutation in a gene? Short answer: The immediate effect of a nonsense mutation is that the DNA-to-Protein-or-RNA processing will be prematurely terminated, as such mutations change an original “amino acid code” to a “stop processing” code. read more
A point-nonsense mutation differs from a missense mutation, which is a point mutation where a single nucleotide is changed to cause substitution of a different amino acid. Some genetic disorders, such as thalassemia and DMD, result from point-nonsense mutations. read more