Ravgen Explained

Ravgen Inc. is a privately owned biotech company founded in 2000 by Chairman and C.E.O. Dr. Ravinder Dhallan.^[1] Ravgen Inc. performs research in the prenatal diagnostic field and has developed non-invasive prenatal diagnosis testing for Down Syndrome.^[2]

Publications and research

Ravgen has published peer-reviewed articles on genetic research in publications such as the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2004,^[3] The Lancet in 2007,^[4] and the New England Journal of Medicine in 2012.^[5] In addition, Ravgen has received some acclaim from its research on non-invasive prenatal DNA testing.^[6]

External links

• Ravgen's official website
• JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) "Methods to Increase the Percentage of Free Fetal DNA Recovered from the Maternal Circulation"
• The Lancet "A non-invasive test for prenatal diagnosis based on fetal DNA present in maternal blood: a preliminary study"

Notes and References

1. Hanoon. Alaa. Rahan. Nur Nadiah Mohd. Hamid. Nur Nadiah Abd. Ismail. Ahmad Izani Md. 2018. Solving the nonlinear Camassa Holm equation using quartic trigonometric B-spline collocation method. Mathematical Sciences as the Core of Intellectual Excellence (Sksm25). AIP Conference Proceedings. Author(s). 1974. 1. 020034. 10.1063/1.5041565. 2018AIPC.1974b0034H.
2. Web site: Humphries . Courtney . February 2, 2007 . A Simpler Test for Detecting Down's Syndrome | MIT Technology Review . August 17, 2013 . Technologyreview.com.
3. Dhallan . Ravinder . Au . W. C. . Mattagajasingh . S. . Emche . S. . Bayliss . P. . Damewood . M. . Cronin . M. . Chou . V. . Mohr . M. . 2004 . Methods to Increase the Percentage of Free Fetal DNA Recovered from the Maternal Circulation . JAMA . The Journal of the American Medical Association . 291 . 9 . 1114–1119 . 10.1001/jama.291.9.1114 . 14996781 . free . https://web.archive.org/web/20120511014138/http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/291/9/1114.abstract . May 11, 2012.
4. Dhallan . Ravinder . Guo . Xin . Emche . Sarah . Damewood . Marian . Bayliss . Philip . Cronin . Michael . Barry . Julie . Betz . Jordan . Franz . Kara . Gold . Katie . Vallecillo . Brett . Varney . John . 2007 . A noninvasive test for prenatal diagnosis based on fetal DNA present in maternal blood: a preliminary study . The Lancet . 369 . 9560 . 474–481 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60115-9 . 17292767 . 43348652.
5. Guo . Xin . 2012 . A Noninasive Test to Determine Paternity in Pregnancy . The New England Journal of Medicine . 366 . 18 . 1743–1745 . 10.1056/NEJMc1113044 . 22551147 . free.
6. News: February 2, 2007 . Health | Hope for safe prenatal gene test . https://web.archive.org/web/20120419105948/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6320273.stm . April 19, 2012 . August 17, 2013 . BBC News.