Myriad Miscellaneous
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What is Lean?
Tracking test status to ensure timely delivery, creating and maintaining electronic test records and ensuring providers receive the final result of each patient's genetic test result are just a few of this group's many roles.
What is the packaging group?
This test answers the clinical question: "How aggressively should I treat my prostate cancer?"
What is Prolaris?
This sequencing method is the most common method used for DNA sequencing. It can detect point mutations and requires a PCR step for DNA amplification.
What is Sanger sequencing?
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What is "Laugh it up, fuzzball"?
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What is a TRF?
This lab is responsible for removing and placing biopsies of prostate, skin and lung on microscope slides for Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) and sections for macrosections and then performing H&E stains. The pathologist reviews the slides and identifies where the cancer is on the biopsy. These sections are then scraped into microfuge tubes which are transferred to the REX lab for further processing.
What is the Histopathology Lab?
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What is Genesight?
Thousands of people die every year from side effects of properly prescribed medicines while millions more are made seriously ill. This occurs because medicines are made and sold on a standardized basis even though people vary substantially in the way they respond to them. This laboratory science gives physicians the information needed to prescribe based on a patient's individual genetic makeup.
What is Pharmacogenomics?
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What is the Chimera?
This test was launched to provide a way to detect additional large genomic rearrangements in both BRCA1 and BRCA2.
What is the BRACAnalysis Large Rearrangement test or BART?
This group is comprised of three entities; two instrument focused (equipment maintenance and automation) and one molecular biology focused. It plays a technical support role to the clinical laboratories through activities such as: monitoring quality metrics, investigating quality-related issues, maintaining and repairing instrumentation, development and improvement of assays and automation, advising clinical laboratory teams on technical issues and implementing process improvements.
What is the Process Engineering group?
This test answers the clinical question: "Should I change my RA treatment?"
What is VectraDA?
This technology reveals information about DNA identity, size, and abundance. It is a classic technique that involves separating DNA fragments based on size via electrophoresis, transferring them to a membrane, hybridizing with a labeled sequence-specific probe, washing, and finally detection of labeled DNA band(s).
What is Southern Blot?
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What are Hoodoos?
This monumental undertaking in molecular biology concluded ten years after Myriad Genetics was founded, making the company one of the first genomics businesses in history.
What is the Human Genome Project?
This team triages and synthesizes external knowledge in the scientific literature and internal knowledge from our databases or SOPs to classify Variants. They are responsible for monitoring new literature, daily statistical calculations, and co-occurrences with deleterious variants, to identify variants that can be re-classified and presenting this data to the Classification Committee.
What is the Knowledge Management Team?
These tests answer the clinical question: "Should I use a PARP inhibitor to treat my cancer?"
What are BRACAnalysis CDx & myChoice HRD?
This technology is used to detect genomic rearrangements in individuals suspected of a hereditary cancer syndrome via high-throughput methods of robotically arraying genetic material on a solid substrate. These technologies comprise thousands of discrete segments of DNA, or probes, selected from genomic regions of interest.
What is Microarray Analysis?
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What is Sicilian?
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What is the P16 gene?
This group designs and implements new tests and technologies into the labs.
What is the Diagnostic Product and Technology Development group?
This test answers the clinical question: "How aggressively should I treat my breast cancer?"
What is EndoPredict?
This PCR method, detecting abnormal copy numbers of up to 50 different genomic DNA or RNA sequences, is able to distinguish sequences differing in only one nucleotide. It's disadvantages are that it requires high quality DNA, and SNPs can cause technical artifacts.
What is MLPA or Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification?
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What is the Stade or Stadion?