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Myriad Genetics, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, and marketing of transformative molecular diagnostic test. It operates through the following segments: Research, Molecular Diagnostics, and Companion Diagnostics. The Research segment is focused on the discovery of genes related to major common diseases, and includes corporate services such as finance, human resources, legal, and information technology. The Molecular Diagnostics segment provides testing that is designed to assess the risk for developing disease later in life of the patient, identify the likelihood of responding to drug therapy and guide the dosing to ensure optimal treatment, or assess a the disease progression and disease recurrence of the patient. The Companion Diagnostics segment provides testing products and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical research industries. The company was founded by Walter A. Gilbert, Mark H. Skolnick and Peter D. Meldrum in May 1991 and is headquartered in Salt Lake, UT.

Myriad Genetics, Inc., a personalized medicine company, focuses on the development and marketing of predictive, personalized, and prognostic medicine tests worldwide. It operates through two segments, Diagnostics and Other. The Diagnostics segment primarily provides testing and collaborative development of testing that is designed to assess an individual's risk for developing disease; identify a patient's likelihood of responding to drug therapy; guide a patient's dosing to ensure optimal treatment; and assess a patient's risk of disease progression and disease recurrence. The Other segment provides testing products and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical research industries; and research and development, and clinical services for patients. Its molecular diagnostic DNA sequencing tests include myRisk Hereditary cancer, a test for hereditary cancers; BRACAnalysis and BART, which are tests for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers; BRACAnalysis CDx test for use in identifying ovarian cancer patients with suspected deleterious germline; and Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx test that is used to predict DNA damaging agents, such as platinum based chemotherapy agents and poly ADP ribose inhibitors. The company also provides COLARIS test for colorectal and uterine cancers; COLARIS AP test for colorectal cancer; Vectra DA protein detection test for assessing the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis; Prolaris, a RNA expression test for prostate cancer; EndoPredict RNA expression test for breast cancer; myPath Melanoma RNA expression test for diagnosing melanoma; myChoice homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) test to measure three modes of HRD; and myPlan lung cancer, an RNA expression test for lung cancer. Myriad Genetics, Inc. has collaboration with AstraZeneca for the development of an indication for BRACAnalysis CDx. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.