Applied Biosystems™ Axiom™ Ovine Genotyping Array (50K)

Applied Biosystems™ Axiom™ Ovine Genotyping Array (50K)

The Applied Biosystems Axiom Ovine Genotyping Array (50K) provides the power and resolution to enable a wide range of applications in sheep breeding, including breed assignment, parentage verification and discovery, and traceability and monitoring of polymorphisms of known large effect. The Axiom Ovine Genotyping Array includes markers that were selected by the International Sheep Genomics Consortium, with markers derived from three separate sequencing experiments. The array content is augmented with additional markers for parentage testing and traceability in globally diverse breeds of sheep. These include 163 highly informative parentage markers (MAF ≥0.3) in 48 +5 breed groups that enable accurate parentage testing and traceability in many of the world’s sheep breeds.

Features

• Expert design—developed in collaboration with Donagh Berry at Teagasc, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Center, Ireland
• Exceptionally high quality SNPs with excellent call and concordance rates across platforms and laboratories
• Includes SNPs for parentage as well as other traits including scrapie
• Compatible with Sheep Consortium 15K arrays and thus with previous studies