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Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0

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What is the content of the array?

  • Contains 906,600 SNPs
    • All screened in 500 distinct samples (270 HapMap plus diversity panels)
    • Unbiased selection of 494,000 SNPs from 5.0 and 500k tiled on the 6.0
    • 6k SNPs not tiled due to lack of cluster classification or multiple hits to the genome. More information available below
    • 482,000 SNPs; historical SNPs from 500k and 5.0 out of the 494,000 SNPs can be analyzed with the default library file and the SNP 6.0 genotyping algorithm (Birdseed)
    • Selection of additional 424,000 SNPs
      • Tag SNPs
      • SNPs from chromosomes X
      • Y Chromosome SNPs (257 in default, 900 in full)
      • Y Chromosome CN Probes (8,583)
      • Mitochondrial SNPs (119 in default, 465 in full)
      • 100K New SNPs added to the HapMap database
      • SNPs in recombination hotspots

  • Contains 946,000 Non-Polymorphic Probes