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The High School Scientific Training and Enrichment Program is one of four internship subprograms in the NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research.
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The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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Genetic discrimination is prejudice directed against people who have or may have a genetic disease.
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NHGRI participates in the South By Southwest (SXSW) conference to help increase genomic literacy.
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A missense mutation is when the change of a single base pair causes the substitution of a different amino acid in the resulting protein.
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Microsatellite sequences are repetitive DNA sequences usually several base pairs in length.
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The microbiome is a term used to describe the specific collection of microorganisms (such as fungi, bacteria and viruses) that exist in a particular environment.
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Microarray technology is a general laboratory approach that involves binding an array of thousands to millions of known nucleic acid fragments to a solid surface, referred to as a “chip.”
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Metaphase is a stage during the process of cell division (mitosis or meiosis).
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Metagenomics is the study of the structure and function of entire nucleotide sequences isolated and analyzed from all the organisms (typically microbes) in a bulk sample.
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