In the middle of January on PLOS One, the paper that outlined the development of the Equine 50K SNP chip was released. The chip, or genotyping array, was actually developed back in 2008 and since that time they have gone on to add another 11,000 SNP's to another chip tabbed the Equine 70K chip (even though it only has ~65,000 usable SNP's), which was the technology that we used to complete our genome wide study on athletic performance in thoroughbreds and in turn create the g