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Trivia
100

True or false: SNPs are mutations accumulated over time

What is false?

100
What GWAS stands for and what they do

What is Genome-Wide Association Studies and analyzes SNPs?

100

40% percent of people suffer from this disease caused by uncontrolled mitosis

What is cancer?

100

A SNP in POLD1 will...

What is increase risk of tumor initiation & cancer progression?

100

This city is the capital of Mongolia

What is Ulaanbaatar?

200

What ADRS/ADES stands for

What is adverse drug reaction/adverse drug event?

200

True or false: AI is useless in SNP research

What is false?

200

11% of people suffer from this disease caused by neurological inflammation

What is Alzheimer's? 

200

A SNP in APOE will...

What is eventually lead to Alzheimer’s disease?

(alters cholesterol transport and accumulates proteins leading to neuron deaths)

200
The name of the Gryffindor house ghost in the Harry Potter series

What is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (Nearly Headless Nick)?

300

What eSNP stands for and what function it interferes with

What is Expression SNP and gene expression?

300

What the X and Y axis of a SNP Manhattan Plot show

What is the location of the SNP on the chromosome and the -log 10 of the P-value?

300

1.2% of people suffer from this disease that is caused by electrical discharges in the brain

What is epilepsy?

300

A SNP in HLA will...

What is negatively affect the immune system? 

(prevents proper distinguishing between the body's own cells and foreign invaders)

300

Name four aggregate fruits

What are any of the following: raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, custard apple, dewberry, magnolia, loganberry, boysenberry, clematis, delphinium?

400

What "SNP" stands for

What is Single Nucleotide Polymorphism?

400
What pharmacoresistance is and in which disease it is most prevalent

What is when a patient's disorder cannot be affected or treated by proper medication (resistant to the drug); epilepsy

400

This is the number of globally identified SNPs (found across human populations)

What is >600 million?

400

A SNP in MTHFR will...

What is affect metabolism?

(methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, processes folate and regulates homocysteine levels)

400

This was the cutoff for USABO opens in 2011

What is 29?

500

The difference between non-synonymous and synonymous SNPs

What is that nsSNPs change the amino acid/disrupt protein structure, while sSNPs do not change the amino acid?

500

What DeepVariant AI can be used for

What is improving SNP detection accuracy from high-throughput sequencing data?

500

The percent and amount of the human genome made up by SNPs

What is 0.1 - 0.4%, 4 - 5 million SNPs?

500

A SNP in CFH will...

What is causes macular degeneration?

(impaired vision in old age)

500

What an sparklebuttologist studies

What are fireflies?