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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2018
Central Adelaide Local Health Network Inc., Adelaide, AU;
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, AU;
Leanne Michelle Dibbens, College Park, AU;
Ingrid Eileen Scheffer, Victoria, AU;
Samuel Frank Berkovic, Victoria, AU;
John Charles Mulley, South Australia, AU;
Jozef Gecz, South Australia, AU;
Central Adelaide Local Health Network Inc., Adelaide, AU;
The University of Melbourne, Victoria, AU;
Abstract
Methods and kits for the diagnosis of illnesses related to protocadherin 19 (PCDH19) protein deficiency or altered PCDH19 protein function are provided, as well as methods and kits for the identification of a predisposition to such illnesses and methods of screening subjects to identify carriers of such illnesses and methods and kits for the therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of PCDH19 deficiency or altered PCDH19 protein function. Further, nucleotide and amino acid sequences corresponding to a complete PCDH19 open reading frame (ORF), mutant sequences encoding non-functional PCDH19 mRNA or altered PCDH19 mRNA are described along with transformed cells and non-human transgenic animals comprising wild-type or mutant PCDH19 ORF nucleotide sequences.