single nucleotide polymorphism

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• March 3. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  single nucleotide polymorphism — noun — english

  (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species