US Patent Issued to Illumina on Sept. 16 for "Methods and compositions for germline variant detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,819, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for germline variant detection" was invented by Jin Hyun Ju (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the methods and systems provided herein relate to variant calling from sequence data obtained from a single sample. In some embodiments, a somatic variant can be distinguished from a germline variant based on variant allele frequency in a sample and location in a genome."

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2019, under Application No. 16/669,270.

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