The acquisition allows Sysmex to enter the cytogenetics market and strengthens its technology base in molecular genetics, while expanding its life science business.
Microarrays can detect smaller deletions in genes relevant to diseases like acute lymphoblastic leukemia, offering insight into diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
While there are already many companies in the space, Agilent believes its relatively quick protocol and higher-throughput capacity will set it apart from competitors' products.
Investigators have identified a form of compound inheritance for congenital scoliosis that involves null mutations and hypomorphic alleles of a particular gene.
The researchers analyzed variants in more than 1,100 children with severe undiagnosed developmental disorders and their parents using exome sequencing and array-CGH data.
Researchers used CGH arrays to identify a significant and recurrent gain in the 17q25.3 genomic region and found overexpression of more than a dozen genes in that region.
