SNP arrays have the added advantage of the ability to identify polyploidy and long stretches of homozygosity that may represent consanguinity or uniparental disomy, associated with a risk for ...

Figure 2: Array-based, genome-wide methods for the ... Translocations can be intra- or inter-chromosomal. Segmental uniparental disomy. Uniparental disomy describes the phenomenon in which a ...

A considerable and unanticipated plasticity of the human genome, manifested as inter-individual copy number variation, has been discovered. These structural changes constitute a major source of ...

SNP social care minister Maree Todd confirmed to MSPs that her Government would not proceed with part one of the legislation underpinning the policy, which she branded “the most contentious part ...

The authors thank the patients, their families and the physicians for referring patients; the MAGIC Foundation and Dayna Carney for their help with the patients recruited in the study; Fréderic ...

An SNP plan to turn around Scotland’s crisis-hit NHS has been branded a “shameful rehash of failed policies” after it emerged that a key pledge was first announced more than two years ago.

My message to Labour is this – join us in ending the two-child cap, and let us speak with one voice in saying that child poverty in Scotland should be a thing of the past. We've got what it takes - to ...

THE Scottish Government's Budget is guaranteed to pass after the Greens announced they would be backing the SNP’s spending plans. The SNP Government said it had also reached a deal with the Scottish ...

“After much reflection I’ve decided it is time to pass on the torch, and to seek fresh challenges outwith frontline politics. “I’ve witnessed the SNP move from the fringes to where we are now – still ...

The SNP has about-turned on a proposed ban on pet cats. John Swinney, the First Minister, told reporters: “Let me just clear this up today. The Government [is] not going to be banning cats.” ...

SNP ministers have been accused of hiding behind almost 300 different advisory groups instead of taking action to solve the country’s problems. The dizzying range of issues on which the groups ...

Never underestimate the SNP. After more than 17 years in power and counting, the party could well emerge as the largest party in Holyrood once again next May, meaning they’ll get first dibs on ...