Exagen Partners with Sonora Quest to Offer AVISE Testing for Autoimmune Disease

Exagen has entered into a strategic partnership with Sonora Quest. The agreement provides preferred access through Sonora Quest in Arizona to Exagen’s AVISE testing. The testing can facilitate improved care through the differential diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring and therapeutic optimization of complex and incurable autoimmune rheumatic diseases. The details of the agreement are confidential.

"We’re pleased to be working with Sonora Quest in a shared commitment to improve patients’ lives. Expanding access to our portfolio of innovative products will have a significant impact on patients, enabling rheumatologists to improve patient care through insights available exclusively through our patented technology," said Ron Rocca, President and CEO of Exagen. "This is an important step towards helping the estimated 23 million Americans who are yet to be accurately diagnosed for conditions that can present with symptoms similar to lupus or rheumatoid arthritis."

"The AVISE tests add tremendous value to our continually expanding menu of testing, providing consumers in Arizona more power to proactively manage their health through access to innovative testing platforms," said Christina Noble, Chief Growth Officer at Sonora Quest Laboratories. "Lupus is known for being difficult to diagnose because its symptoms differ from person to person, mimic the symptoms of many other diseases, and can come and go. A Lupus Foundation of America survey found that on average, it takes nearly six years for people with lupus to be diagnosed, and this partnership seeks to reduce that delay." 

AVISE testing will be available through healthcare provider customers of Sonora Quest beginning in spring 2020.

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases are a diverse group of conditions that primarily impact the joints, bones, muscle and connective tissue. Patients with these autoimmune diseases often suffer debilitating symptoms such as pain, depression and fatigue leading to reduced quality of life and loss of productivity. Diagnosing these conditions early is difficult and there is no known cause nor cure. Women are disproportionately affected by autoimmune rheumatic diseases and in lupus, for example, more than 85 percent of patients are female.

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