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Congenica Prenatal

Jun 04, 2020

Congenica has introduced an application to assist with molecular research into fetal anomalies. Called Congenica Prenatal, the application analyzes fetal exome and genome sequences to help detect causal variants of abnormalities in utero and generate actionable reports based on these analyses. The company said that Congenica Prenatal can save users an average of six minutes per gene of interest and 40 minutes per report beyond time gains faciliated by the base Congenica clinical decision support system. 

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