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Background: With the human genome studies, knowledge about polymorphisms started raising interest in a variety of fields and, in medicine, the evidence of direct action of polymorphisms on the arising and progression of diseases, disclosing the possibility of using them as disease predisposition markers. Substitutions, insertions or deletions which are transmitted through generations and reach frequencies equal or superior to 1% in the population are named polymorphisms. Knowing that the m… Show more
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