SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix®, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced at the ICHG/ASHG annual conference in Montreal, the worldwide launch of the Axiom® Genome-Wide Pan-African Array, the first commercial product to maximize genomic coverage of both common and rare alleles in populations of African ancestry, including West African, East African, and African American. The Axiom Solution is the only microarray family of products to provide a complete set of population-optimized arrays for all three HapMap populations: Western European (CEU), East Asian (ASI), and Yoruba (YRI). Each array is strategically designed to address the unique haplotype structure of these populations to ensure high genomic coverage and statistical power.
