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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A single site in any DNA sequence for which the identity of the nucleotide differs among individuals, often associated with a physiological variation, such as response to a drug, and used as a genetic marker.

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  • initialism UK Scottish National Party
  • noun A single base pair of DNA which is polymorphic with respect to a population.
  • noun A particular vasodilator, the nitroprusside of sodium.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[s(ingle) n(ucleotide) p(olymorphism).]

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Initialism

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Abbreviation of single-nucleotide polymorphism.

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Abbreviation of sodium nitroprusside

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Examples

  • According to a new YouGov poll of Scottish opinion for the Telegraph the SNP is ahead of Labour for the first time in Westminster voting intentions.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • I hope to bring a great deal of energy and enthusiasm into my political campaign and to show the people of Clydesdale that the SNP is the only real alternative to New Labour.

    Prediction - South Scotland Jeff 2007

  • They could have taken a non-committal approach but they decided that the SNP is the party worth voting for.

    Superpoll => Superpredictor Jeff 2007

  • They published what they call the SNP's 100 - no more, no less - broken promises.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • In some ways the SNP is lurching to the left to much for me, ie more state control etc but on the right to buy, im fully with them ..

    Right To Buy? Alan Smart 2009

  • But, whether hoping for a Tory Government or just (like most people) expecting one, I am nor even sure the SNP is correct in thinking a Tory victory will lead to some huge desertion by Labour voters to them when confronted by the reality of "English Tory Rule", Because ths is not what happened in 1979 and all though the 80s and 90s.

    In Search of Labour's Soul Alan Smart 2009

  • Since their triumphant party conference late October, Salmond and the SNP have come under pressure on a series of fronts, despite the £1m cheque they had this week from Europe's richest lottery winners, Chris and Colin Weir, both long-term SNP supporters.

    Scottish devolution: what questions will future referendum ask voters? 2011

  • But on this latest spin, and on the ever repeated single transferable excuse of the current £500 million pound "cut", the SNP is just playing the politics of grievance.

    The SNP Myth of the £500m cut and related matters Alan Smart 2009

  • But on this latest spin, and on the ever repeated single transferable excuse of the current £500 million pound "cut", the SNP is just playing the politics of grievance.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • Wendy Alexander MSP: No what it's ... it's not about toeing a line it's about tactics in the Scottish Parliament to harry and expose the dishonesty of the SNP is one for Labour in the Scottish Parliament, and I have the support of the Labour Party in doing that.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

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  • MaryW commented on the word SNP

    If your genome Is all 6 billion DNA base pairs (the function of most of which we don't understand), and your exome is the 20,000+ genes (about 60 million base pairs) that code for protein, then your variome is a smaller subset still: it is an assortment of markers more or less evenly spaced across the genome that tend to vary from person to person; some markers fall within genes, but most do not. By early 2010 researchers had identified nearly 13 million of these markers; . . . . These marker sets (called single nucleotide polymorphism, or SNPs—"snips") were thought to capture much of the variation in human DNA, although they represented no more than 0.05 percent of the entire genome.
    Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 4 (Kindle loc. 1000)

    December 17, 2016