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Agilent Technologies Introduces CGH Microarray for Chicken Genome
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 21, 2008 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the introduction of a catalog microarray for the study of chromosomal additions and deletions in chickens. The Agilent Oligonucleotide Array CGH (comparative genomic hybridization) chicken microarray, with 244,000 features, is available immediately. "This started out as a custom array, and we were getting strong enough demand to put it in the catalog," said Jay Kaufman, Agilent senior director of marketing, Genomics. "Now, when researchers want to study copy-number variation in chickens, they can do so quickly and easily." Martien A.M. Groenen, Ph.D., of the Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, has a long history of mapping and characterizing the chicken genome as it relates to physical traits. "The availability of the new 244K chicken CGH array enables us to analyze to what extent copy-number variation [CNV] contributes to phenotypic variation in chickens, a species of tremendous economic importance and also an important developmental biology model," Groenen said. "How abundant are CNVs in the chicken genome, and what is the size distribution of identified CNVs? Are there breed-specific variations in the number and type of CNVs? What is the observed Linkage Disequilibrium between CNVs and SNPs? We're using the new array to investigate these questions." Agilent has plans to commercialize additional model organism arrays throughout 2008 to assist researchers who are studying various non-human species in a variety of contexts. For more information about this or the complete Agilent Genomics portfolio, please visit www.opengenomics.com. About Agilent in Genomics Agilent is a leading provider of microarray-based, genomics research solutions. Agilent's end-to-end solutions include reagents hardware for sample QC and high-throughput microarray scanning; 60-mer oligo microarrays on industry-standard 1" x 3" glass slides for gene expression, CGH, methylation, ChIP-on-chip and microRNA profiling. Agilent also provides GeneSpring bioinformatics systems. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.4 billion in fiscal 2007. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. # # # Contact: Stuart Matlow |