US Patent Issued to China Agricultural University on April 15 for "Egg-type chicken whole-genome SNP chip and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,987, issued on April 15, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"Egg-type chicken whole-genome SNP chip and use thereof" was invented by Ning Yang (Beijing), Congjiao Sun (Beijing), Zhuang Liu (Beijing), Yiyuan Yan (Beijing) and Guiqin Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an egg-type chicken whole-genome SNP chip and the use thereof. The SNP loci of the chip are respectively derived from 14,624 SNP loci shared by each line of the major egg-type chickens in China; 3,677 SNP loci associated with disease-resistant traits in egg-type chickens; 16,000 SNP loci associated with economic traits in egg-type...