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Originally published in Science Express on 21 December 2006
Science 26 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5811, pp. 466 - 467
DOI: 10.1126/science.1138239
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
SNPs, Silent But Not Invisible

Anton A. Komar

Single nucleotide polymorphisms that are considered "silent" can affect protein folding.

The author is in the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH 44115, USA. E-mail: a.komar{at}csuohio.edu

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