SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) today announced plans to commercialize four Axiom® population-optimized arrays used to analyze 100,000 samples collected from volunteers in one of the nation’s largest and most diverse genomics projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Each Axiom genotyping array is optimized for the major populations, including those from European, East Asian, Latino, and African ancestry. Affymetrix tailored the design of the Axiom Array Plates for each population by using rare variants from several sources, including the 1000 Genomes Project, so they will provide a more informative and cost-effective solution for genome-wide scan and replication studies of previously identified disease risk factors and genetic traits.
