Weatherbys Scientific have collaborated with illumina® to validate and release the new Illumina® OvineSNP50 Genotyping BeadChip v2. This new SNP chip has been validated using 16 different sheep breeds from 410 animals. Scrapie Genotyping is now possible on this SNP chip via a subset of 4 specific scrapie probes that have demonstrated 100% concordance with control samples.

Fast and Efficient

illumina® OvineSNP50 Genotyping BeadChip v2, routinely 10 workings days.  The chip utilizes Illumina XT chemistry which is processed within a robust proprietary workflow which we have used to deliver over 2 million high quality genotypes in 5 years.  We have the capacity and expertise to support your SNP genotyping project providing rapid genotype delivery and additional values adds including parental verification, breed composition and genetic traits all delivered within 5 days of genotypes, to answer all your questions and drive precision breeding.

Technical Specifications

Minor Allele Frequency (MAF) across breeds:

MAF was determined using 410 animals across 16 different breeds, with sample numbers per breed ranging from 2 to 66 (Table 1).

Table 1: Minor allele frequencies across a total of 16 Ovine breeds for 51,960 SNP content. Number of SNPs with a minor allele frequency greater than a0.05 and b0.25 respectively.

Chromosomal Coverage of 51,960 SNPs