Avera Institute for Human Genetics

We are located in Sioux Falls, S.D., within the Avera Behavioral Health Center, a state-of-the-art 110-bed facility providing care for children, adolescents, adults and seniors.

The Avera Institute for Human Genetics (AIHG) is a fully equipped state-of-the-art human molecular genetics laboratory with the capability to undertake a wide range of research projects from small scale pilot candidate gene projects to large scale high throughput genome-wide association studies on tens of thousands of samples.

The AIHG scientific laboratory is a modern laboratory and workstation space housing cutting-edge genetics laboratory equipment enabling researchers to describe a patient's genetic profile, for example, the GeneChip Instrumentation System from Affymetrix, and DNA Sequencer from Applied Biosystems.

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