When did SNP genotyping arrays first come into use in research?

Question

[devenvyas]

This isn't exactly a bioinformatics question, but it is something I have been wondering and this is a community where people commonly use array data.

When did SNP genotyping arrays first come into use in research (particularly in human research)?

Answer 1

[Petr Ponomarenko]

Maybe this is good enough overview of the history https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011503/

In short, modern types of arrays were developed in late 80th and early 90th in particular in Dr. Stephen Fodor group in what later became Affymetrix.