SNP-Based Whole-Genome Linkage Scans

(Princeton, NJ, USA), which is offering the service. The company's whole-genome panel provides the most complete genome coverage available commercially today and is more than 99.5% accurate, Orchid states. The whole-genome linkage scan service is flexible, handling individual studies ranging from 50 samples up through thousands of samples. The service uses a SNP panel of 3,200 public domain SNPs evenly spaced across the genome.

"The ability of our whole-genome panel to enable researchers to uncover associations between genotype and phenotype rapidly and cost effectively is an important example of the power and flexibility of our SNP-IT tag array technology,” said Michael Bopyce-Jacino, Ph.D., chief scientific officer and vice president of Orchid.