Dartmouth Research Finds Some Gene Chromosomes More Risk Associated with Disease
Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical CenterReviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk-associated with disease than protective.