Personalis Awarded US Department Of Veterans Affairs Contract For Clinical Exome Testing Services For Genetic Disorders

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Personalis, Inc., a leading genomics-based clinical diagnostic laboratory, announced today that the company has been awarded a contract to provide ACE Clinical Exome™ testing for genetic disorders by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). To accurately identify the causes of specific patients’ genetic disorders, the VA will use the Personalis ACE Clinical Exome Test, which contains content and features not found in conventional exome sequencing tests. The ACE Clinical Exome Test combines enhanced whole-exome sequencing, including additional coverage for more than 8,000 genes related to disease, coverage of medically important non-coding regions, with genome-wide structural variant detection, and a sophisticated analysis and interpretation process to increase diagnostic yield.

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