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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (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;
[syn: single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

single nucleotide polymorphism
    n 1: (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 [syn: single
         nucleotide polymorphism, SNP]