The FibroGENE® lab test, only a concept for the last few years, is now ready for development for practical use as a decision support biomarker test that could greatly impact health care by allowing physicians to identify the cause of patient disease symptoms and select appropriate treatment more precisely. 

The FibroGENE® lab test, only a concept for the last few years, is now ready for development for practical use as a decision support biomarker test that could greatly impact health care by allowing physicians to identify the cause of patient disease symptoms and select appropriate treatment more precisely. 

Paired with AMPEL’s pipeline of tools to analyze very large and complex clinical datasets (“Big Data”), FibroGENE® is a significant step towards implementing a routine test for monitoring fibromyalgia and providing decision support for treatment based on a patient’s gene expression. This will transform the way doctors treat fibromyalgia by using the information gathered by the lab test and analyzed by bioinformatics to characterize the precise molecular abnormalities and treat symptoms, reduce pain and increase the quality of life of millions of Americans. 

Precision medicine company AMPEL BioSolutions and academic partners at Duke University identified two distinct gene signatures for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), one of which appears specific to patients experiencing fibromyalgia.