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Cystic Fibrosis

Baylor College of Medicine uses MassARRAY system

Published in Respiratory Therapeutics Week, December 13th, 2004

Sequenom, Inc., (SQNM) reported that clinicians at the Baylor College of Medicine have published the successful implementation of the MassARRAY system for high-throughput CFTR testing.

The publication in the September/October 2004 issue of Genetics In Medicine also reports the discovery of a new disease causing polymorphism. The extended CFTR assay panel developed for use on Sequenom's MassARRAY system covers 51 mutations. Most importantly, results from the Baylor DNA Laboratory established the clinical significance of a rare CF mutation and contributed to recently revised CF testing recommendations by the American College of Medical Genetics.

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