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UPenn Center for Personalized Dx Expands Tumor NGS Menu, Reports Concordance With Single-Gene Tests

Apr 18, 2016
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Molika Ashford
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Investigators from the University of Pennsylvania Health System's Center for Personalized Diagnostics have compared tumor profiling by next-generation sequencing with single-gene tests and found that the results agreed most of the time, suggesting that NGS is a reliable platform for routine clinical use.

In total, UPenn CPD has now sequenced over 5,500 tumor samples, according to Jennifer Morrissette, the center's clinical director.

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