Roche Results: Results from Two Multi-Site Collaborative Studies Highlight the Value of 454 Sequencing Systems for Genotyping Applications

PENZBERG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO)(SWX:ROG)(Pink Sheets: RHHBY), has announced promising new results from a multi-site collaborative research study which used the company’s Genome Sequencer FLX System to perform HIV drug-resistant mutation detection. The findings were outlined last month at the International HIV & Hepatitis Virus Drug Resistance Workshop in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and follow only weeks after the results from a similar multi-site research study, which used the company’s sequencing technology for high-resolution HLA genotyping, were presented at the European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference in Florence, Italy.

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