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Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 632-644 (August 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrg1901

Highly parallel genomic assays

Jian-Bing Fan1, Mark S. Chee2 & Kevin L. Gunderson1  About the authors

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Recent developments in highly parallel genome-wide assays are transforming the study of human health and disease. High-resolution whole-genome association studies of complex diseases are finally being undertaken after much hypothesizing about their merit for finding disease loci. The availability of inexpensive high-density SNP-genotyping arrays has made this feasible. Cancer biology will also be transformed by high-resolution genomic and epigenomic analysis. In the future, most cancers might be staged by high-resolution molecular profiling rather than by gross cytological analysis. Here, we describe the key developments that enable highly parallel genomic assays.

Author affiliations

  1. Illumina Inc., 9885 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA.
  2. Prognosys Biosciences Inc., 505 Coast Boulevard, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

Correspondence to: Kevin L. Gunderson1 Email: kgunderson@illumina.com

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