Nature

Exonic versus intronic SNPs: contrasting roles in revealing the population genetic differentiation of a widespread bird species

Over recent decades, microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been the two most common molecular markers used in the fields of ecology, evolution and conservation. However, during the last ...
Nature

Comparative assessment of SSR and SNP markers for inferring the population genetic structure of the common fungus Armillaria cepistipes

Investigating the population genetics of fungi may be a challenging task because of the complexity of their mating systems (for example, Nieuwenhuis and James, 2016). Besides sexual reproduction and ...
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Study Finds Genetic Basis of Common Diseases May Span Tens of Thousands of SNPs

Scientists in the U.S. and Korea have developed a statistical method for estimating the broad numbers of DNA variations that impact on different physical traits, such as height or childhood IQ, and on ...
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Improving LOH Detection on CGH Microarrays

Due to its higher resolution, oligo array CGH has recently made strong inroads in the cytogenetic lab. It’s not surprising. With an increased sensitivity of more than 1,000-fold, microarrays can ...