Over at his Building Confidence blog, Russ Altman writes about the use of non-standard ways of referring to SNPs when they publish association studies. To end the confusion, he writes, "I think the best strategy would be to ask that authors use the identifiers from dbSNP, also called 'RS numbers.'" This would not only make life easier for database purposes, he adds, but it would also allow funding to be reallocated from tracking down SNP identifiers to more valuable projects.
That Looks Like a Non-Standard SNP You've Got There
Oct 02, 2008
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