Genetics & Genomics

Illumina introduces Sentrix HumanHap650Y Genotyping BeadChip

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 24th, 2006

Illumina, Inc., (ILMN) announced that it has introduced a new Sentrix HumanHap Genotyping BeadChip that extends broad genomic coverage to all four populations studied by the International HapMap Project including the Yoruba in Ibadan, Nigeria.

The Yoruba show greater genetic diversity than European and Asian people who experienced population bottlenecks in relatively recent human history. This diversity demands a significantly higher number of SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) than less-diverse, younger populations to achieve equivalent genomic coverage.

Illumina's HumanHap650Y BeadChip contains over 650,000 SNP markers on a single microarray,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2006-07-24)

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