Questions tagged [snp]
Single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, are differences between two sequences of DNA at one individual nucleotide location.
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Ancestral Allele explanation
I'm having some trouble understanding the concept of ancestral allele. What exactly does it mean? What does it have to do with Identity by descent/state? What does it have to do(if anything) with SNP'...
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What about 23andMe's SNP test gives it such bad efficacy as a diagnostic tool?
The recent news about the FDA stopping the google backed 23andMe service selling any more kits got me thinking. I understand the company may have been selling it as a medical tool prematurely, but ...
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Effect of single nucleotide deletion or insertion on primer annealing
How is primer annealing, and, consequently, PCR amplification affected by single nucleotide deletion or insertion inside the primer ?
Imagine a primer like this: GCGTCATAAAGGGGACGTG (primer) and ...
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What is the difference between Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), Mutation and Structural Variation(SV)?
This is a question which plagues many people and today I was wondering it myself while writing a grant. Indeed, I've seen many people use the terms interchangeably, but they are all very different ...