HLA typing
Emirati Genome Program Yields New Public Health Initiatives, Including Premarital Carrier Screening
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The United Arab Emirates is employing three short- and long-read sequencing platforms to enable these initiatives, which also include PGx testing and HLA typing.
FDA Approves Thermo Fisher Scientific HLA Typing Kit as CDx for Adaptimmune T-Cell Receptor Therapy
Adaptimmune's therapy is intended to treat patients with unresectable or metastatic synovial sarcoma who have received prior chemotherapy.
Lung Cancer Study Highlights Genetic Variants Involved in Immunosurveillance
Researchers used large-scale population data to link lower-than-usual lung cancer risk to increased heterozygosity in the human leukocyte antigen class II region.
GenDx, OSE Immunotherapeutics Ink Deal to Develop NGS CDx for Epitope-Based Cancer Vaccine
Under the deal, GenDx will develop and validate a companion diagnostic test for high-resolution typing of HLA-A*02 based on its IVDR-registered NGS products.
Omixon and GenDx have independently developed nanopore-based HLA typing kits that are currently for research use only but eventually aimed for diagnostic use.