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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:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephen J. Tapscott, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/563 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/563 ;
Abstract
Provided are methods of classifying and prognosticating human neuroectodermal tumors by analyzing a sample of the tumor to determine whether various bHLH proteins are detectably expressed in the sample. In the methods disclosed herein, expression of the bHLH genes is assessed by measuring transcripts or proteins expressed from the genes.