Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Human Genome

I learned something today.

Single-nucleotide polymorphism.

A variation in a single base pair in a DNA sequence.  Often referred-to as SNPs (pronounced “snips”), are the most common type of genetic variation among people. Each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA building block, called a nucleotide.  There are roughly 10 million SNPs in the human genome.

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