SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced today the next-generation High-Density Bovine BeadChip (BovineHD) array product using its Infinium® HD assay. The chip contains data from more than 20 diverse breeds that was generated from recent sequencing largely done with Illumina Genome AnalyzerIIx technology. The BovineHD BeadChip will interrogate more than 500,000 loci, representing over ten times more genetic markers than the company’s industry-leading BovineSNP50 BeadChip.