Genaissance Obtains License to Vanderbilt Patent Linking Genetics to Key Drug Safety Issue
Vanderbilt University has granted Genaissance exclusive commercial rights to U.S. Patent 6,458,542, which claims screening patients for susceptibility for drug-induced cardiac arrhythmias by testing for the presence of a common polymorphism in KCNE1, an important cardiac ion-channel gene. The patent licensed from Vanderbilt University adds to Genaissance's extensive patent estate for genes associated with Long QT syndrome (LQTS).
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