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 ...

Krol, M. A., et al., RNA-controlled polymorphism in the in vivo assembly of 180-subunit and 120-subunit virions from a single capsid protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small noncoding RNAs that regulate gene expression by either degrading or inhibiting the translation of mRNAs and have significant roles in the development of various ...

It illustrates balanced polymorphism because carriers are resistant to malaria, an infection by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum that causes cycles of chills and fever. The parasite spends the ...

A research team has recently constructed a global polymorphism genetic map of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs), termed the NyuWa VNTR Polymorphism Map. The team has generated maps using high ...