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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:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ;
Abstract
A method for predicting the development of type 2 diabetes before the manifestation of its symptoms in a subject, which comprises measuring the mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA) content in peripheral blood of the subject, comparing the measured mtDNA content with that of a normal control, and predicting the increased risk of development of diabetes when the subjects mtDNA content is lower than that of the normal control.