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Myriad Genetics riskScore

Sep 07, 2017

Myriad Genetics has launched riskScore, which employs a proprietary algorithm combining analysis of 80 SNPs and patients' personal and family history of cancer to determine a woman's risk of breast cancer. Results from this test will be reported alongside Myriad's myRisk Hereditary Cancer test, a 28-gene panel that gauges patients' risk for for eight cancers. RiskScore will help guide decisions for asymptomatic patients who get negative myRisk results, providing definitive answers to the 90 percent of patients testing negative for hereditary cancer genes, the company noted. Myriad has completed two validation studies in patients of European descent that it will present at upcoming conferences.

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