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Biotech / Medical : AFFYMETRIX (AFFX)
AFFX 14.010.0%Apr 1 5:00 PM EST
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To: Richard Haugland who wrote (686)5/20/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: Dr Goodhybe  Read Replies (1) of 1728
 
The MIT-Whitehead/Affymetrix collaborative effort regarding the large-scale identification, mapping and genotyping of SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) in the human genome is now finally published in the May 15th issue of Science. One can conceivably assay thousands of genetic markers distributed across all 23 chromosomes, varying from person to person in the human population, in a simple assay on a surface not much more than one cm^2. The journal reference is:
Wang _et al_ (1998) Science 280: 1077-1082.

The full text online is at:
sciencemag.org

-- Doctor Goodhybe.
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Richard Haugland wrote on 17 May 1998:
> There will also be a particular concentration on the genetic
> differences (known as polymorphisms) between individuals. The high-
> throughput methods the new firm is adopting mean that several
> different human genomes will eventually be sequenced. Tracking down
> polymorphisms should therefore be easy. And polymorphisms are worth
> money. Some can help in diagnosing diseases, others in understanding
> their causes. It is even possible that some will lead eventually to
> drugs... This is where AFFX should make something, I expect, and,
> IMO, the sooner the genome is completed the better for everyone.
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