| id | GO:0000184 Detailed information
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| name | nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The nonsense-mediated decay pathway for nuclear-transcribed mRNAs degrades mRNAs in which an amino-acid codon has changed to a nonsense codon; this prevents the translation of such mRNAs into truncated, and potentially harmful, proteins." [GOC:krc, GOC:ma, PMID:10025395]
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| synonym | "mRNA breakdown, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
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| synonym | "mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated" EXACT []
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| synonym | "mRNA catabolism, nonsense-mediated" EXACT []
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| synonym | "mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
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| synonym | "nonsense-mediated mRNA decay" EXACT []
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| synonym | "nuclear mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay" EXACT []
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| xref | Wikipedia:Nonsense-mediated_decay
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| xref | Wikipedia:Nonsense-mediated_mRNA_decay
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| is_a | GO:0000956 ! nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process
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