Chips being used for current disease gene studies have 300, 000 to 500, 000 SNPs on them.
In 2012 all SNPs will have to be approved by the National Committee on Quality Assurance.
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SNPs are single-letter mutations within the DNA that determine how one person is different from another.
SNPs, these companies are willing to see them put into the public domain by collaborating with their rivals.
The company rushed out its first SNP chip in May 2005 with 100, 000 SNPs on it, months behind Affymetrix.
But DNA chip technology for scanning these so-called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs ("snips"), was prohibitively expensive in 2000.
Researchers realized in 2002 that they might not need to measure all 10 million SNPs to find culprit genes.
The scientists looked for common genetic variations - known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (Snps) - linked to the three cancers.
Eric Boerwinkle of the University of Texas in Houston winnowed this to 8 or 10 SNPS in a study of 16, 000 patients.
Eric Boerwinkle of the University of Texas in Houston winnowed this to eight or ten SNPs in a study of 16, 000 patients.
SNPs and to pay for the enterprise, at least in part, by taking out patents on some of the genes the company discovers.
Both companies are launching chips with 1 million SNPs on them.
These small mistakes are called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.
Of course, Orchid isn't the only company hunting SNPs, and even its new deal with the SNP consortium doesn't mean that Orchid's way of finding them will become the standard.
Dr Nicolaj Andreassen, who led the research, said that although the findings needed to be repeated in other studies, looking at these SNPs could indicate how someone would respond to radiotherapy.
We now know the SNPs for cancer of the breast, prostate and lung as well as for obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, schizophrenia and countless more.
Enormous efforts have gone into examining the contribution of other normally-occurring genetic variants (single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs), but these studies have only identified a few SNPS with very slight increases in risk.
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The similarity of the SNPs was then compared with other aspects of the individuals' similarity in this case, with their cognitive ability in both youth and old age, and how much that had changed over the years.
As a first step, the scientists examined half a million genetic markers in the participants' DNA. These markers, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, can together reveal how genetically similar people are, even though they are not conventionally related.
Biochemists spent 14 years deconstructing DNA into about 25, 000 genes and 1.4 million variations in DNA that make an individual unique, their SNPS, looking for patterns in the data to find useful insights that can improve the quality and lower the cost of health care.
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It focused narrowly on areas in and around active genes, ignoring the 98.5% of genomic material known as "junk DNA." This process pinpointed 25, 000 genetic landmarks called SNPS (single nucleotide polymorphisms, or "snips"), places where a single dna letter varies from one person to the next.
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Studies published that year showed that whole groups of the SNPs are passed from parent to child in big chunks of DNA. By 2005 an international team had mapped the locations of these chunks, effectively cutting the number of SNPs researchers needed for gene studies to around 300, 000 or so.
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