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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. 11, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kenneth S. Kornman, Newton, MA (US);
Gordon W. Duff, South Yorkshire, GB;
Steven Offenbacher, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 ; C12P 1/934 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
Methods, assays and kits are disclosed for detecting a mother's or a fetus's susceptibility to an adverse pregnancy outcome such as low birth weight. The methods comprise obtaining a biological sample from a patient and determining the presence or absence of an IL-1 allele 2 of a marker that is associated with an adverse pregnancy outcome.