Navigenics Announces Clinical Partnership with Toronto’s Medcan Clinic
Genetic testing provider Navigenics has announced a partnership with the Medcan Clinic, a preventive healthcare clinic located in Toronto, Canada. According to the press release, Medcan will use a version of the Navigenics genotyping service, in combination with family history information, to offer patients an analysis of those “genetic risks that are clinically actionable, allowing patients to lower their risk through prevention strategies and more personalized screening.” The focus on clinically or medically actionable strategies is consistent with the approach taken by the Coriell Personalized Medicine Collaborative (CPMC), which is studying the effect of providing information on “medically actionable” genetic risk factors to its participants. (Interestingly, one of the conditions highlighted by the MedCan-Navigenics release is Alzheimer’s disease, which is not a medically actionable condition in the eyes of the CPMC.)
