Provision of access to DNA samples of 16 common diseases to conduct association studies of specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and specific diseases

Function

• Provision of access to DNA samples of 16 common diseases to conduct association studies of specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and specific diseases

Services provided

• Access to  DNA samples from 16 common diseases: Type I diabetes, type II diabetes, asthma, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, migraine, hypertension, coronary artery disease, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and rheumatoid arthritis
• More than 500 samples per disease for most diseases and a common panel of 6000 healthy controls
• Customers may request to genotype any number of SNPs on any number of samples (cases and controls)
• Genotyping is performed in a central laboratory and included within the service (DNA is not shipped to customers)

Advantages

• Family history, disease characterization, drug treatments, efficacy and adverse events, recorded in an electronic database. All samples were collected using strict and standardized clinical criteria from a homogeneous population
• All samples were collected under the appropriate ethical guidelines including proper informed consent and approval of ethical committees (IRB)
• All samples were collected in Israel from the Ashkenazi Jewish population significantly increasing the genetic and environmental homogeneity of the samples
• Results belong solely to the customer
• Completely confidential service