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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2020
Quest Diagnostics Investments Incorporated, Wilmington, DE (US);
Mildred Goldman, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Nigel J. Clarke, Vista, CA (US);
Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods are provided for detecting the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes (i.e., estrone (E1), estrone sulfate (E1s), 17α-estradiol (E2a), 17β-estradiol (E2b), estradiol sulfate (E2s), estriol (E3), equilin (EQ), 17α-dihydroequilin (EQa), 17β-dihydroequilin (EQb), Equilenin (EN), 17α-dihydroequilenin (ENa), 17β-dihydroequilenin (ENb), and Δ8,9-dehydroestrone (dE1)) in a sample by mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing one or more HRT panel analytes in a sample and quantifying the generated ions to determine the amount of one or more HRT panel analytes in the sample. In methods where amounts of multiple HRT panel analytes are detected, the amounts of multiple analytes are detected in the same sample injection.