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Nonsense mutation is when there is a nucleotide substitution causing a different amino acid to be coded for, which creates a stop codon . This causes the protein that is being encoded for to be truncated due to the premature termination of translation.[1]
References
[1] Hartl, D. and Jones, E. (2009) Genetics, U.S.A: Jones and Bartlett