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The Infinium Multi-Ethnic Global-8 Kit provides a true multi-purpose, multi-ethnic genotyping array. With > 1.7 million expertly selected markers, it enables identification of genetic associations with common and rare traits, providing insight across diverse populations to epidemiologists, health care researchers, population geneticists, and genomic researchers.
This kit combines expertly selected markers and content from the most popular Illumina commercial arrays with the most current genomic information. Researchers can detect both common and rare variants across the most commonly studied 5 major super-populations and impute variants in a vast number of subpopulations.
Consortium partners developed content for this multi-ethnic global genotyping array using tagging strategies with the power to perform more effective association studies in diverse populations. The novel algorithm selects population-specific and transethnic tag SNPs that maximize imputation accuracy, as imputation has become a standard practice in the interpretation of genotyping data and allows for more accurate statistical inference of genotypes not directly genotyped.
| Infinium Multi-Ethnic Global-8 Kit | Infinium Omni2.5-8 Kit | Infinium Omni5-4 Kit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Description | With content from a variety of resources, this multiethnic array allows researchers to detect both common and rare variants across the most commonly studied 5 superpopulations in order to impute variants in a vast number of subpopulations. | 8-sample arrays with high throughput and optimized tag SNP content, including full support of copy number variation applications, designed to be highly customizable and maximally informative for studying diverse world populations. | A high-density array that provides exceptional coverage of common, intermediate, and rare SNPs while leveraging powerful tag SNPs and offering optimized content for whole-genome genotyping and copy number variation studies. |
| Number of Markers | Fixed markers: 1,779,819 Custom marker add-on capacity: Up to 245,000 |
Fixed markers: 2,372,784 Custom marker add-on capacity: Up to 200,000, Custom marker add-on capacity: None |
Fixed markers: 4,284,426, Custom marker add-on capacity: None |
| Number of Samples | 8 samples per array | 8 samples per array | 4 samples per array |
| Sample Throughput | ~1067 samples per week (estimate for 1 HiScan System, 1 AutoLoader 2.x, 1 Tecan robot, and a 5-day work week) | ~1067 samples per week (estimate for 2 iScan Systems, 1 AutoLoader 2.x, 2 Tecan robots, and a 5-day work week) | >460 samples per week (estimate for 2 iScan Systems, 1 AutoLoader 2.x, 3 Tecan robots, and a 5-day work week) |
| Species Category | Human | Human | Human |
Custom Cluster File Creation for Improved Copy Number Analysis
Technical Note | PDF < 1 MB
Infinium Multi-Ethnic Global BeadChip
Data Sheet | PDF < 1 MB
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