A region of DNA that is adjacent to the 5' end of the gene. The 5' flanking region contains the promoter, and may contain enhancers or other protein binding sites. It is the region of DNA that is not transcribed into RNA.
Flanking SNPs are Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) that appear in the flanking region.
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