MUMBAI, India, Feb. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517000551 A) filed by Natera, Inc., San Carlos, U.S.A., on Jan. 2, for 'compositions and methods for identification of chromosomal microdeletions.'

Inventor(s) include Pawar, Hemant; Xu, Wenbo; Keen-Kim, Dianne; and Brevnov, Maxim.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 21, under issue no. 08/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided herein are compositions to be used as a positive control for detection of one or more microdeletions of interest in a sample. The positive control can be used to determine an error and an efficiency rate for assays used to identify microdeletions such as 22ql...