Finding co-inheritance of a SNP variant and a disease tells scientists that ____________________

(a) everybody who carries this SNP will get the disease.
(b) sequences within the SNP cause the disease.
(c) a gene important for causing the disease is linked to the SNP.
(d) SNPs on other chromosomes will not be co-inherited with the disease.


(c)

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