As far as I know proteins are built by sequentially reading triplets of nucleotides.
But if at a certain point a nucleotide is inserted in the sequence, the following sequence of triplets is completely different.
For example:
AATACGGTACCATTA ...
AAT ACG GTA CCA TTA ...
But inserting a nucleotide B at second place we get
ABA TAC GGT ACC ATT ...
Which is completely different.
However I know from theory that a single nucleotide insertion is not dangerous in most cases.
Could someone clarify my mind about this?
However I know from theory that a single nucleotide insertion is not dangerous in most cases.
Do you have a citation for that? $\endgroup$