Congenica COVID-19 Module

Sep 23, 2020

Congenica has added a COVID-19 module to its genomic analysis platform. The company said that the new add-on will support research into relationships between a patient's genome and COVID-19 infection risk, severity, and clinical outcomes. The module also helps researchers prioritize variants in curated genes based on Human Phenotype Ontology terms that suggest COVID-19 symptoms.

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