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Research Services

Avera Genetics — a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certified and College of American Pathologists (CAP) accredited laboratory — provides a variety of services to researchers as a fee-for-service or collaborative opportunity.

Count on our advanced sequencing and genotyping services performed by our highly skilled and qualified laboratory staff. As an Illumina-certified service provider (Propel Program) our facilities feature a full suite of equipment, including:

  • Illumina NextSeq2000
  • Illumina MiSeq
  • Illumina iScan & AutoLoader
  • Tecan Freedom EVO 150 Liquid Handler
  • Beckman Coulter Biomek i7 Liquid Handler
  • Hamilton NIMBUS and Microlab STARlet Liquid Handlers
  • QIAsymphony SP Automated System
  • Promega Maxwell RSC
  • Applied Biosystems 3500 Genetic Analyzer
  • Applied Biosystems Real-Time PCRs
  • Agena MassARRAY

Nucleic Acid Extraction (DNA/RNA)

  • Whole Blood
  • Saliva
  • Buccal Swabs
  • FFPE Tissue
  • Fresh/Frozen Tissue
  • Cell Lines
  • PBMC
  • Bone Marrow
  • Microbiome/Fecal
  • Special requests available

Genotyping Services

  • Global Screening Array (GSA) – 679,000 plus markers
  • Global Diversity Array (GDA) – 1.8 million markers
    • PGx and/or Cytogenetics enhancement options
    • Consumer Genomics
    • Disease/Translational research
    • Precision Medicine
    • Biobanks
  • Illumina Infinium products:
    • Core & CoreExome Kit
    • CytoSNP-850K v1.3 BeadChip
    • ImmunoArray v2 Kit
    • Multi-Ethnic Arrays
    • Omni2.5 through Omni5 Arrays
    • OncoArray-500K
    • PsychArray Kit
    • QC Array Kit
  • SNP Genotyping

Methylation Studies

  • Bisulfite Next Generation Sequencing
  • Infinium Methylation EPIC Array
  • TruSeq Methyl Capture EPIC

Next Generation Sequencing

  • Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)
  • Whole Exome Sequencing (WES)
  • Total RNA Sequencing
  • mRNA Sequencing
  • miRNA Sequencing (small RNA studies)
  • Targeted Sequencing
    • Hybrid Capture/Enrichment
    • Amplicon-Based
  • 16s rRNA and Metagenomic Sequencing (microbiome studies)
  • ChIP Sequencing
  • Custom Panel Design

Bioinformatics

  • Data Quality Control & Filtering
  • SNP Genotyping Analysis
  • QWAS and GWAMA
  • Polygenic Risk Scoring (PRS)
  • Epi-Genotyping Analysis
  • EWAS
  • 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis – OUT-based Approach

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