What would be a medical advantage of having a catalog of SNPs?

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What would be a medical advantage of having a catalog of SNPs?

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A single-nucleotide polymorphism is a substitution of a single nucleotide at a unique position in the genome. It is present in a large fraction of the population.

SNPs fall within coding sequences of genes, non-coding parts, or the regions between genes. 

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