Orchid Enters Genotyping Deal for Autoimmune Diseases

Sep 25, 2001

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 - Orchid BioSciences has entered into a commercial SNP genotyping partnership with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation to study autoimmune diseases, especially lupus, the company said on Tuesday.

Terms of the deal call for Orchid to use its MegaSNPatron facility for an undisclosed fee to perform high throughput SNP scoring on samples provided by OMRF.

Further details of the agreement were not disclosed.

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