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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Francedilla.ois Rousseau, Ste-Foy, CA;
Assignee:
Universite Laval, Cite Universitaire, Quebec, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12P / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435-6 ; 435 912 ; 536 243 ; 536 2431 ; 935 77 ; 935 78 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of determining predisposition to low or high bone mineral density and to development of osteoporosis of a patient, which comprises determining estrogen receptor polymorphism in linkage disequilibrium in a biological sample of said patient, wherein heterozygosity is associated with high bone density and homozygosity is associated with low bone density.