Illumina Announces Phasing Analysis Service

Illumina, Inc.

today announced the availability of its Phasing Analysis Service, provided by the company's FastTrack Services lab through the Illumina Genome Network (IGN). The new sample-to-answer service delivers human whole-genome phase information, empowering gene mapping studies with a more comprehensive view of genomic variation. With phase data, researchers can better understand the effect of genotype on phenotype and variant interaction within a gene. Conventionally, whole-genome sequencing generates a single consensus sequence without assigning variants to specific homologous chromosomes. Phase information, however, can identify segments of connected variants, facilitating ancestry determination in population studies. Further, in instances where two potentially deleterious variants occur in a gene, knowing how these