A team of prominent researchers at the University of Utah and Vanderbilt University are leveraging Utah's deep domain expertise in human genetic research and the Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP Array 6.0 to discover genetic markers associated with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Autism.

Scientists led by Mark Leppert, Ph.D., professor and co-chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, are using the Affymetrix technology and LineaGen's business domain expertise to generate and analyze genetic information from large multiplex Utah pedigrees, with corresponding decades' worth of longitudinal clinical data. It is anticipated that the resulting information will provide researchers with greater understanding of these diseases, and enable more effective use of existing treatments and the development of novel molecular diagnostics and therapies...............

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