Colleen Newton - Slashdot User

Comment Paper on test by Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Counsyl (Score 1) 4

by Colleen Newton on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:38AM (#31019946) Attached to: $350 Test Screens For 100 Single-Gene Disorders

Hey -- Counsyl person here (colleen_at_counsyl_dot_com). Wanted to make a few quick points

1) The key precedents for what we're doing are the Jewish community's successful campaign for universal Tay-Sachs screening and the at-home pregnancy test. Please see blog.counsyl.com for more details!

2) If anyone is curious about the paper mentioned in the article, it is available in advance of publication at Nature Precedings. Authors are from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Counsyl:

http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4192/version/1

3) We have CLIA certification, the same as the millions of lab tests performed each year by Labcorp and Quest. FDA regulation primarily applies to implantables and drugs, while CLIA applies to tests that have an experienced laboratory scientist in the loop.

$350 Test Screens For 100 Single-Gene Disorders 4

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:29PM from the your-sample-please dept.

TechRev_AL writes "Prospective parents could soon be screened for around 100 genetic diseases that they might pass on to their children. Counsyl, a Stanford University startup based in Redwood City, CA, has developed the necessary genetic test — it costs $349 and is already covered by some major insurers. For most people, screening recommendations are currently limited to the chronic lung disease cystic fibrosis, with broader testing offered to some ethnic groups. The new technology could make this kind of screening far more common."

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