Invitae Carrier Screen

Invitae has launched several genetic carrier screening products. The Invitae Comprehensive Carrier Screen uses next-generation sequencing to analyze 287 genes linked to serious genetic disorders and identifies more than 99 percent of disease-causing changes in most of the genes analyzed. In addition, the company offers a 46-gene test, called Invitae Broad Pan-Ethnic Carrier Screen, that assesses a smaller set of common disorders, and a test called Invitae Pan-Ethnic Carrier Screen that analyzes three genes associated with cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, and fragile X syndrome. Both of the smaller panels can be supplemented with a customized set of genes from the large panel and with 13 genes not included in any pre-curated panel. The Invitae Carrier Screen replaces the GeneVu carrier screen from Good Start Genetics, which Invitae acquired last year.