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EXHIBIT 3.6
CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION
OF
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
VARIAGENICS, INC.
It is hereby certified that:
1. The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the "corporation")
is Variagenics, Inc.
2. The Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of the
corporation, which was filed by the Secretary of State of Delaware on March 3,
2000 is hereby corrected.
3. The inaccuracy to be corrected in said instrument is as follows:
The number of shares designated for the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
was incorrectly typed as 1,883,547 whereas it should have been 1,883,549 shares
of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and as a further result of this error
the total number of shares of authorized preferred stock of the corporation
should have been 13,653,776 rather than 13,653,774.
4. The portion of the instrument in corrected form is as follows:
"FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the
Corporation shall have authority to issue is (i) Seventeen Million One Hundred
Fifty-Five Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-Three (17,155,473) shares of Common
Stock, $.0l par value per share ("Common Stock"), and (ii) Thirteen Million Six
Hundred Fifty-Three Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-Six (13,653,776) shares of
Preferred Stock, $.01 par value per share ("Preferred Stock"), of which Five
Hundred Three Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-Seven (503,787) shares have been
designated Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, and One Million Eight Hundred
Eighty-Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty-Nine (1,883,549) shares have been
designated Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, Seventy-Seven Thousand Five
Hundred Nineteen (77,519) shares have been designated Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock, Three Hundred Twenty Thousand (320,000) shares have been
designated Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, Four Million Six Hundred
Forty-Eight Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-Nine (4,648,789) shares have been
designated Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, Two Million Two Hundred
Ninety-Eight Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-Four (2,298,564) shares have been
designated Series E-2 Convertible Preferred Stock, and Three Million Nine
Hundred Twenty-One Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-Eight (3,921,568) shares have
been designated Series F Convertible Preferred Stock.
5. In addition the Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation was
dated and filed on March 6, 2000 and evidence of the filing from the State of
Delaware indicates a fling date of March 3, 2000 which should be changed to the
March 6, 2000 date.
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Signed on this 28th day of March, 2000.
/s/ Taylor J. Crouch
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Taylor J. Crouch
President and Chief Executive Officer
