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. 2012 May 15;60(Suppl 3):19–25. doi: 10.1159/000337310

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Gene misspellings (SNPs) can result in metabolic inefficiencies. SNPs can result in changes in the amino acid composition of an enzyme that leads to misfolding and poor function, or SNPs can lead to defective transcription factor (TF) binding sites and inability to activate gene expression.