Table 1 Infinium QC Array-24 variants sorted by their category and source
Marker Category | Category Description | Number of Markers |
|---|---|---|
ADME | Pharmacogenomics, from PharmADME.org | 1009 |
AIM | Ancestry Informative markers from exome array (http://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Exome_Chip_Design#Ancestry_Informative_Markers) | 2910 |
Blood group | From NCBI’s dbRBC database covering 51 blood group defining genes http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gv/rbc/xslcgi.fcgi?cmd=bgmut/systems | 1659 |
Fingerprint | High MAF SNPs unlikely to be in LD with each other, from http://www.cstl.nist.gov/strbase/SNP.htm and http://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/index.asp | 477 |
Linkage | Linkage Panel by Illumina, contains heterozygous SNPs to test for Mendelian disorders, from Linkage 12 array | 5486 |
Extended MHC | Variants from extended major histocompatibility complex MHC covering 8 Mb region containing immune markers | 930 |
Mitochondrial | Determination of mtDNA haplogroups | 141 |
Sex chromosomes | X-chromosome specific | 1840 |
Y-chromosome specific | 1401 | |
Pseudoautosomal Regions | 535 |