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PreventionGenetics PGxome Custom Panels

Mar 14, 2017

PreventionGenetics has launched new customizable whole-exome next-generation sequencing panels for clinical genetic testing. The PGxome Custom Panels can be ordered to contain any subset of more than 4,000 clinically relevant or disease-causing genes, including paralogous genes, enabling gap coverage in whole-exome NGS-based testing. 

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