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Glossary Term
Glossary Term Inversion
Definition A type of mutation in which a length of DNA is broken in two positions and repaired in such a way that the medial segment is now present in reverse order. Inversions range in size from those large enough to be visible cytogenetically to those involving only a few base pairs.
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB), Gene Ontology (GO)
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MGI 6.15 		The Jackson Laboratory