Archive for the tag 'gene desert'

Jun 29 2009

Better Understanding of Colorectal Cancer-Associated SNP Could Guide Treatment

Published by ErinC under news

Much to the surprise of many scientists, a lot of the SNPs identified in genomewide association studies have not been in the parts of genes that encode the molecular machinery of a cell.
Instead, many SNPs have been found on the edges of genes, in regions of DNA that control when the genes get turned on [...]

No responses yet