SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today launched new Axiom™ myDesign™ Targeted Genotyping (TG) Arrays for the targeted genotyping market, enabling researchers to study mutations in disease pathways and characterize gene-gene interactions. This latest advancement allows researchers to design custom arrays to genotype 1,500 to 2.6 million markers per sample and rapidly transition from genome-wide scans to specific disease analyses with different experimental approaches on the same platform. In addition to Axiom myDesign TG Arrays, Affymetrix released a new version of the Axiom™ Genomic Database containing 11 million variants, making it the industry’s largest supply of validated genomic markers.