MedGenome Selects Applied Biosystems Axiom Genotyping Platform to Enable Large-scale Genetic Studies in South Asian Populations

MedGenome, a global leader in personalized medicine, announced the development of a proprietary genotyping array to efficiently enable large-scale genetic studies focused on South Asian populations. The South Asian Research Genotyping Array by MedGenome (“SARGAM”) will be optimized for capturing the unique variants found in South Asian genomes, leveraging MedGenome’s proprietary database of 2.5 million variants that are unique to the South Asian population, and not available in any publicly available genetic database.