synonymous_variant

ID: SO_0001819

Class

A sequence variant where there is no resulting change to the encoded amino acid.

EBI term: Synonymous SNPs - In coding sequence, not resulting in an amino acid change (i.e. silent mutation). This term is sometimes used synonomously with the more general term 'silent mutation', although a silent mutation may occur in non coding sequence. The best practice is to annotate to the most specific term.

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Classification

Alternative Names

SynonymScopeReference
silent mutationrelated synonym
silent substitutionrelated synonym
Seattleseq:synonymous-near-splicerelated synonymVAR
ANNOVAR:synonymous SNVrelated synonym//www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/annovar_download.html
synonymous codonexact synonym
Seattleseq:synonymousexact synonymVAR
VEP:synonymous_variantexact synonymVAR
synonymous_codonexact synonym
Jannovar:synonymous_variantexact synonym//doc-openbio.readthedocs.org/projects/jannovar/en/master/var_effects.html
VAAST:synonymous_codonexact synonymVAR
VAT:synonymousexact synonymVAR
VAAST:synonymous_variantexact synonymVAR
synonymous_codingexact synonym
snpEff:SYNONYMOUS_CODINGexact synonymVAR
coding-synonexact synonym//ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/specs/docsum_3.1.xsd
silent_mutationrelated synonym

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