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Illumina Applauds FDA’s Issuance of Draft Guidances to Advance Precision Medicine Using Next Generation Sequencing

July 7, 2016 9:20 AM EDT

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced that it supports the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in their efforts to provide a flexible and streamlined approach to the oversight of next generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostic tests, as represented by FDAs release of two new draft guidance documents. The FDA draft guidances are part of the larger Precision Medicine Initiative announced by President Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address.

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