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Frameshift mutations are particularly dangerous because they can result in radically altered proteins.

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Frameshift mutations (insertions or deletions not in multiples of three) shift the mRNA reading frame, changing every downstream codon. This usually produces a radically different amino acid sequence and often an early stop codon, leading to nonfunctional or truncated proteins.