Blood Tests for Mitochondrial Disease Diagnosis

<p>As a follow-up discussion to Dr. Fran Kendall's presentation on "Muscle Biopsy Testing for Mitochondrial Disease", MitoAction welcomes Dr. Steve Sommer of MEDomics to discuss testing for mitochondrial disease using a blood sample.</p> <h5>About MEDomics</h5> <p>After 23 years in academia, Dr. Steve Sommer started MEDomics in order to apply a revolutionary technology called "NextGen sequencing" to clinical mitochondrial medicine. <a href="http://medomics.com/">(www.medomics.com)</a></p> <p>MEDomics sequences the entire mitochondrial DNA genome thousands of times. &nbsp;That sometimes allows the diagnosis of mitochondrial disease to be made with a blood sample rather than with painful muscle biopsies. &nbsp;MitoDx is a test of unprecedented power for diagnosing mitochondrial genome disease, which is roughly "half the elephant" of mitochondrial disease.</p>