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DNA diagnostics based on mass spectrometry

US6428955B1 · kind B1 · utility

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112References

18Claims

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Assignee

Sequenom, Inc. · US

Inventors

Hubert Koster · Village of La Jolla, US
Kai Tang · Chapel Hill, US
Dong-Jing Fu · Carmel, US
Carsten W. Siegert · Hamburg, DE
Daniel P. Little · Ebensburg, US
Andreas Braun · San Diego, US
Brigitte Darnhofer-Demar · Hamburg, DE
Christian Jurinke · Village of La Jolla, US
Dirk Johannes Van Den Boom · Dreieich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 6, 1996
Grant date	Aug 6, 2002
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 6, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N35/1067
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention provides fast and highly accurate mass spectrometer based processes for detecting a particular nucleic acid sequence in a biological sample. Depending on the sequence to be detected, the processes can be used, for example, to diagnose a genetic disease or chromosomal abnormality; a predisposition to a disease or condition, infection by a pathogenic organism, or for determining identity or heredity.

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