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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1998
Douglas J Dellinger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
SueAnn C Dahm, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark A Troll, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Agilent Technologies Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention discloses and claims a signal amplification method for detecting a target nucleic acid analyte having a homopolymeric region and a target sequence. The method comprises (a) contacting an analyte under hybridizing conditions with a multiplicity of reporter probes, each probe including a signal region and an oligonucleotide sequence which is complementary to, and capable of forming a stable hybrid with the analyte homopolymeric region; and (b) forming an analyte:capture probe hybrid by contacting the analyte target sequence with a capture probe under hybridizing conditions.