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Scientific Communities

Affymetrix is dedicated to providing innovative genomic analysis tools and education resources for the life science research community.

Scientist Spotlight - Joshua Schiffman, MD

Featured Researchers

Discover how researchers are using Affymetrix products and services to power their experiments in the Featured Researchers. This community features scientists who will share their work with you through hands-on activities and conversation. Learn how scientists detect cancer-causing genes and more.

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Scientific Publications

Search our database of 24506 scientific publications that use Affymetrix technology.

The database is updated daily with new publications from core journals. Our criteria for inclusion is peer-reviewed, final publications.

Scientific Communities

Cancer Community

Educational resources for the cancer community along with best practices and workflows.
Human Genotyping Community

Educational resources for the genotyping community along with best practices and workflows.
Translational Research and Personalized Medicine Community

Educational resources, best practices, and workflows.
Cancer Community

Educational resources for the cancer community along with best practices and workflows.
Genotyping Community

Educational resources, best practices, and workflows.
Translational Research and Personalized Medicine Community

Educational resources for the Translational Research...

Researchers

Joshua Schiffman, MD

The use of molecular inversion probe (MIP) technology for studying copy number alterations in pediatric cancers.
Avrum Spira, MD

The discovery of a gene expression signature and a potential preventative treatment for lung cancer.
Lisa Baumbach, MD

How ethnicity-specific genetic changes may govern the risk of developing an aggressive form of breast cancer.
Chris Smith, PhD

EURASNET's approach for comparing commercial microarrays for investigating alternative splicing.
Robert Norgren, PhD

The innovation behind the development of the Affymetrix GeneChip® Rhesus Macaque Genome Array.
Yong-Jie Lu, PhD

A groundbreaking method for rapidly identifying chromosome rearrangements and precisely mapping breakpoints.

Featured Publications

A Small Terminal Deletion 11q in a Boy Without Jacobsen Syndrome: Narrowing the Critical Region for the 11q Jacobsen Syndrome Phenotype
Evers, C.; Janssen, J. W. G.; Jauch, A.; Bonin, M.; Moog, U. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part a 158A(3), 680-4, 2012 PubMed
Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Mutations in GPR179 Leading to Autosomal-Recessive Complete Congenital Stationary Night Blindness
Audo, I.; Bujakowska, K.; Orhan, E.; Poloschek, C. M.; Defoort-Dhellemmes, S.; Drumare, I.; Kohl, S.; Luu, T. D.; Lecompte, O.; Zrenner, E.; Lancelot, E.; Antonio, M.; Germain, A.; Michiels, C.; Audier, C.; Letexier, M.; Saraiva, J. P.; Leroy, B. P.; Munier, F. L.; Mohand-Said, S.; Lorenz, B.; Friedburg, C.; Preising, M.; Kellner, U.; Renner, A. B.; Moskova-Doumanova, V.; Berger, W.; Wissinger, B.; Hame, C. R.; Schorderet, D. F.; De Baere, E.; Sharon, D.; Banin, E.; Jacobson, S. G.; Bonneau, D.; Zanlonghi, X.; Le Meur, G.; Casteels, L.; Koenekoop, R.; Long, V. W.; Meire, F.; Prescott, K.; de Ravel, T.; Simmons, I.; Nguyen, H.; Dollfus, H.; Poch, O.; Leveillard, T.; Nguyen-Ba-Charvet, K.; Sahel, J. A.; Bhattacharya, S. S.; Zeitz, C. American Journal of Human Genetics 90(2), 321-30, 2012 PubMed
Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma
Schwartzentruber, J.; Korshunov, A.; Liu, X. Y.; Jones, D. T. W.; Pfaff, E.; Jacob, K.; Sturm, D.; Fontebasso, A. M.; Quang, D. A. K.; Toenjes, M.; Hovestadt, V.; Albrecht, S.; Kool, M.; Nantel, A.; Konermann, C.; Lindroth, A.; Jaeger, N.; Rausch, T.; Ryzhova, M.; Korbel, J. O.; Hielscher, T.; Hauser, P.; Garami, M.; Klekner, A.; Bognar, L.; Ebinger, M.; Schuhmann, M. U.; Scheurlen, W.; Pekrun, A.; Fruehwald, M. C.; Roggendorf, W.; Kramm, C.; Duerken, M.; Atkinson, J.; Lepage, P.; Montpetit, A.; Zakrzewska, M.; Zakrzewski, K.; Liberski, P. P.; Dong, Z. F.; Siegel, P.; Kulozik, A. E.; Zapatka, M.; Guha, A.; Malkin, D.; Felsberg, J.; Reifenberger, G.; von Deimling, A.; Ichimura, K.; Collins, V. P.; Witt, H.; Milde, T.; Witt, O.; Zhang, C. D.; Castelo-Branco, P.; Lichter, P.; Faury, D.; Tabori, U.; Plass, C.; Majewski, J.; Pfister, S. M.; Jabado, N. Nature 482(7384), NPG, 2012 PubMed