A single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNP, is a single base-pair difference in the DNA sequence of individual members of a species; not necessarily a pathological mutation, but commonly studied as ...

Although the vast majority of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may never prove to be important medically or agriculturally, some could play an important ...

A genetic causal link between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and an increased risk of traumatic and osteoporotic fractures ...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer affecting men globally, with diagnostic methods and risk assessment ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig University, the German ...

Research Interests: The research in my lab involves using measured single nucleotide polymorphism as well as sequencing data to gain insight into the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders; and ...

Attorneys for defendant Bryan Kohberger contend most of the evidence in the case hinges on an unconstitutional genetic ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified neurons that are essential for mice to engage in social interactions ...

The application of pharmacogenetics in identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA sequences that cause clinically significant alterations in drug-metabolizing enzyme activities is ...