SNPedia

Commonly known as CCR5-Δ32 (CCR5 delta 32), rs333 isn’t a true SNP - it’s a deletion of 32 nucleotides in the CCR5 chemokine receptor gene....

Prostate cancer ranks as the most commonly diagnosed non-skin cancer in Caucasian men, and it’s the most heritable common cancer. Genome-wid...

Myriad is in the middle of a multi-year defense of their BRCA gene patents. It has reached the Supreme Court and in 2013 we’re likely to g...

In the almost 20 years since the discovery of the ApoE4 allele’s association with increased risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, not a...

Adam Foye’s SNPs have earned a spot on the 12 SNPs of Christmas 2012, even though by agreement we can’t name them publicly yet. The elves at...

Two independent SNPs discovered this year, rs2281389 and rs1800795 , may indicate that the last decade of inconsistent genome-wide associat...

rs11591147 is a SNP that warms the heart. This PCSK9 gene SNP has been known since 2005 to be associated with reduced average low densi...