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One SNP at a time

March 24, 2003 8:00 AM UTC

One SNP at a time

To associate SNPs and haplotypes with specific disease states or drug resistance, scientists must be able both to isolate the effects of individual SNPs and play with various combinations of SNPs. Techniques such as site-directed mutagenesis work, but can introduce other mutations in untargeted areas of genes, making it difficult to associate an effect definitively with a certain SNP. ...