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"At-Home" Testing for BRCA Gene Mutations

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- With great fanfare (if not braggadocio), researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park have published a paper in Genome Biology that purports to provide the means for individuals to assess their risk for breast or ovarian cancer despite patenting of isolated human BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genes by the University of Utah (licensed to Myriad Genetics). As disclosed here, Professor Steven L. Salzberg and Mihaela Pertea from the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology report "a computational screening method that test[s] an individual's genome for mutations in the BRCA genes, despite the fact that...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).