Twist Bioscience NGS | Alliance Panels

A prevalent issue with historical genotyping tools is their bias toward a small number of ethnicities, leaving significant portions of humanity underrepresented in classic genotyping workflows. As an example, microarray platforms only offer fixed content updated occasionally, compounding this challenge.

Researchers can solve these inefficiencies and inequities by utilizing target capture-based NGS workflows with probe panels designed for diversity and flexibility.

As part of Twist’s growing Targeted GBS portfolio, the Twist Diversity SNP Panel gives researchers a new flexible ethnicity-neutral gold standard to use for GBS.

Scientists have the freedom to use the panel as a stand-alone genotyping panel or as a spike-in into the Twist Human Comprehensive Exome panel. Its design is also customizable—additional probes covering regions of interest can be synthesized on Twist's DNA synthesis platform.

The Twist Diversity SNP Panel content was curated in partnership with leaders at the Regeneron Genetics Center. Designed to integrate into existing fully automated exome processing workflows, this panel provides base calls and imputed variants.

Genotype imputations can be calculated using open source tools available. Please reach out to Customer Support to get a copy of our imputation guide to getting started with imputation analysis tools.
 

Note: The Diversity SNP panel content has not been fully validated through the complete Twist workflow. For recommendations on assay set-up, please contact Twist Customer Support.