Illumina partners with private equity firm on gene JV -sources
August 18, 2015 at 03:01 AM EDT
Aug 18 (Reuters) - Gene-sequencing giant Illumina Inc , private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC and venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures have agreed to invest $100 million to seed a new consumer-facing human genome platform called Helix, according to people familiar with the deal.