NHGRI, Research Groups, Illumina Developing Single Chip For Rare Variants

Research groups doing sequencing studies and GWAS in cardiovascular disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes are working on a project with Illumina to develop a single chip, called Metabo-Chip, that can detect up to 50,000 new and rare SNPs associated with various diseases, according to NHGRI scientist Michael Erdos.