Illumina
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia buys Illumina System to genotype children, conduct research
Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, July 5th, 2006
The Illumina system will be housed at the hospital's new Center for Applied Genomics and will provide a core capability for the Center's unprecedented research goal of ultimately genotyping over 100,000 children. The knowledge gained from these studies is expected to provide significant insight into the genetic basis of common childhood disease, linking genetic variations called SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) with specific illnesses. The results will guide therapy and drive...
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