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In the era of evolving technology in business, it is certainly time that medical science endured a radical medical technology overhaul. Well, that appears to be happening right now. In President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address, he announced the Precision Medicine Initiative to highlight support of research and clinical application of the intersection between lifestyle, environment and genetics. …
A SNP (pronounced “snip”) is a single nucleotide polymorphism to be exact. Ok, that doesn’t help at all, right? A basic overview on genetics is necessary to really understand SNPs. For simplicity, these are the key pieces: Your genetic code is built with DNA. The smallest building blocks of DNA are called nucleotides. A nucleotide contains a base attached to …
