Yourgene Health

Yourgene Health PLC, formerly Premaitha Health PLC, is engaged in molecular diagnostics business for research into, and the development and commercialization of gene analysis techniques for pre-natal screening and other clinical applications in the early detection, monitoring and treatment of disease. The Company's product, the IONA test is a non-invasive in vitro diagnostic product for prenatal screening enabling clinical laboratories to offer a regulated non-invasive prenatal test in-house. The IONA test estimates the risk of a fetus having Down's syndrome or other serious genetic diseases. The risks that fetus may be affected with include Trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome), Trisomy 18 (Edwards' syndrome), Trisomy 13 (Patau's syndrome) and Fetal sex determination optional. The analysis is performed on cell-free placental deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from a maternal blood sample, with test results available in three days turnaround time.