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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thaddeus P Dryja, Milton, MA (US);
Eliot L Berson, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H / ; C12P / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 912 ; 536 2431 ; 536 2433 ; 935 77 ; 935 78 ;
Abstract
The invention generally provides a method of diagnosing in a human subject an increased likelihood of developing or transmitting to future generations a disease in which a mutant form of a human photoreceptor protein is a causative agent. The method involves analyzing the DNA of the subject to determine the presence or absence of a mutation in a gene for a photoreceptor protein.