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Quest Diagnostics Announces Licensing Agreement for Genetic Testing Technology to Screen for Most Common Inherited Mental Impairment, Fragile X Syndrome.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 19-JAN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
New Technology Will Allow for Widespread Population-Based Carrier Screenings

LYNDHURST, N.J., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a move that promises to advance physicians' ability to widely screen for Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), the most common form of inherited mental retardation,(1) Quest Diagnostics Incorporated today announced the signing of a worldwide license agreement with U.S. Genomics. The terms grant Quest Diagnostics rights to develop an advanced screening method for FXS based on Quest Diagnostics' and U.S. Genomics' jointly developed genetic testing technology. Additional terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Approximately one in 1,500 males and one in 4,000 to 6,000 females worldwide are born with FXS.(1)

Using U.S. Genomics' applications, Quest Diagnostics plans to develop an automated testing process, resulting in a simpler, more efficient test that allows physicians to have access to, for the first time, widespread population-based carrier testing.

Quest Diagnostics will develop the new test to address and...

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