The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.

The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2014
Applicant:

President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Xi Chen, Newton, MA (US);

David Yu Zhang, Houston, TX (US);

Peng Yin, Brookline, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6858 (2018.01); C12Q 1/6848 (2018.01); C12N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6858 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6848 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides, in various aspects and embodiments, methods and compositions for selectively amplifying a rare target nucleic acid and/or suppressing amplification of non-target nucleic acids with sequences similar to the rare target nucleic acid. The methods and composition are useful, for example, for detecting rare alleles among a population of wild-type alleles.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…