on Archival Tissue Using SNP Arrays

Genotyping is instrumental in the elucidation of the genetics underlying the cause of humandiseases, such as cancer. Linkage analysis and association studies can improve our under-standing of the relation between genetic information and disease phenotype and identifygenomic loci that harbor disease-causing genes. Ultimately, this could result in the iden-tification of the underlying genes. Linkage analysis, for example, led to the successfulidentification of genes that cause breast cancer,