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Today scientist uses genes as a marker to find genetic variations as an explanation of different diseases like cancer, heart problems, liver, and kidney failure or immunological problems..etc. For looking into genes they use single nucleotide polymorphism or SNPs. SNPs are common genetic variations among people. We have genetic variations in every 300 base pairs. Which actually means that there are a round 10 million SNPs in the human genome . Now, not every variation is potentially dangerous for health and development, but there are some variations of the allele (different type of the same gene-we have it two-one from mother and one from father) that is proven to carry a potential danger for developing some diseases . For instance, each SNP represents a difference in a single DNA, called a nucleotide. For example, an SNP may replace the nucleotide cytosine (C) with the nucleotide thymine (T) in a certain DNA. Our gene, for example, for some protein (which has ...