The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics will use Life Technologies’ products to search for genes that cause autism. The institute purchased two next-generation sequence systems from Applied Biosystems, part of Life Technologies.
The two SOLiD™ System sequencing platforms will be initially used to investigate genes that showed association with autism in their genome-wide study. “What we've been able to do with genotyping has been phenomenal, but it only gives us a portion of the information we need to identify and understand the genetic causes underlying human disease,” says senior co-investigator John R. Gilbert, Ph.D. “Sequencing gets to those causes.”