The last step! A technician applies the label and serial number to a GeneChip cassette. The GeneChip is now ready to be used in a laboratory to perform large-scale genetic analysis.
Jonathan Sebat, a researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, discusses how association studies are used to determine the causes of genetic disorders.
Special techniques are used for screening each individual’s genome for millions of different SNPs. This kind of comparison is referred to as a genome-wide association study.