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Article: SNP Consortium Completes Linkage Map, Makes It Public.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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The SNP Consortium Ltd. said it completed a genome-wide SNP-based human linkage map - a map of the genetic markers called single nucleotide polymorphisms - and is making it available to researchers worldwide through its website.
"Linkage is where it's at, relative to beginning to find areas of the genome that are related either to disease susceptibility or to a response," Arthur Holden, chairman of the SNP Consortium, said. "To have a common linkage map to both disease studies and drug studies is very, very useful."
Holden noted that it is particularly significant that the map is publicly available, without companies having to pay ...