Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNSC - News) announced today that it has signed a cooperative agreement with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the in-house research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In cooperation with scientists at ARS, Genaissance will determine the distribution of known bovine SNPs in different types of beef and dairy cattle and will construct and validate assays for these SNPs. ARS will then make this new panel of assays available to trace the origin and/or parentage of cattle.

Genaissance also announced that the Animal Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS), an agency of the USDA, which has responsibility for protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, had awarded Genaissance a contract to conduct genotyping services to determine the susceptibility of sheep to scrapie as part of the National Scrapie Eradication Program. Genaissance's scrapie genotyping assays were developed in collaboration with scientists at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, part of ARS.

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Source: Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
October 6, 2004

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