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Medical Definition of Hereditary mutation
1. A gene change that occurs in a germ cell (an egg or sperm) to become incorporated in every cell in the body. Hereditary mutations (also called germline mutations) play a role in cancer as, for example, the eye tumour retinoblastoma and wilms' tumour of the kidney. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary Mutation
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