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 ...

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 ...