Sequenom Inc. to Present Four Posters at the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequenom, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM) today announced that data from a number of research activities will be highlighted at the 60th Annual Scientific meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, being held November 2-6, 2010 in Washington DC.

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Following are details about the poster presentations:

The 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC.

All four posters will be presented in Exhibit Hall A of the Convention Center.


Presenter: J.A. Tynan

Author(s): J.A. Tynan, C. Deciu, L. Cagasan, M. Roy, J. Clemens, D. van den Boom, P. Oeth

Title: Pan-Ethnic Diagnosis of Trisomy 21 from Chorionic Villi mRNA Using High Frequency Coding-Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (cSNP) Allele Ratios.

Program Number: 2477/F

Session Time: Friday November 5; 7am-12:30pm

Presentation time: Friday November 5; 10:30am-11:30am

Presenter: T.J. Jensen

Author(s): T. J. Jensen, T. Zwiefelhofer, M. Tang, C. Gebhard, M. Rehli, D. van den Boom, M. Ehrich

Title: Identification and characterization of differential DNA methylation for potential use in non invasive prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 21.

Program Number: 2472/F

Session Time: Friday November 5; 7am-12:30pm

Presentation time: Friday November 5; 11:30am-12:30pm

Presenter: T. Zwiefelhofer

Author(s): T. Zwiefelhofer, J. Tynan, L. Cagasan, D. van den Boom, L. Tang, Y. Chen, C. Deciu, M. Ehrich

Title: Multiplexed Massively Parallel Sequencing for the Prenatal Detection of Fetal Aneuploidy from Maternal Plasma.

Program Number: 1871/T

Session Time: Thursday November 4; 7am-7pm

Presentation time: Thursday November 4; 5pm-6pm

Presenter: R. McCullough

Author(s): R. McCullough, R. Tim, A. O. H. Nygren, C. Deciu, D. van den Boom, M. Ehrich

Title: Detecting Ethnic Differences in DNA Using Inter-chromosomal Paralogous Regions.

Program Number: 1527/T

Session Time: Thursday November 4; 7am-7pm

Presentation time: Thursday November 4; 5pm-6pm

About Sequenom

Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is a life sciences company committed to improving healthcare through revolutionary genetic analysis solutions. Sequenom develops innovative technology, products and diagnostic tests that target and serve discovery and clinical research, and molecular diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Sequenom maintains a website at http://www.sequenom.com to which Sequenom regularly posts copies of its press releases as well as additional information about Sequenom. Interested persons can subscribe on the Sequenom website to email alerts or RSS feeds that are sent automatically when Sequenom issues press releases, files its reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission or posts certain other information to the website.

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