NMD

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A form of nonsense-mediated decay — A cellular pathway for the rapid destruction of messenger RNAs with premature stop codons resulting from nonsense mutations or frameshifts.

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nounNMD (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of nonsense-mediated decay.
proper noun
  1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of National Missile Defense.

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nonsense-mediated decay

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APA

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