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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2000
Applicants:

Janet A. Warrington, Los Altos, CA (US);

Mamatha Mahadevappa, Cupertino, CA (US);

Archana Nair, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Inventors:

Janet A. Warrington, Los Altos, CA (US);

Mamatha Mahadevappa, Cupertino, CA (US);

Archana Nair, The Woodlands, TX (US);

Assignee:

Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 168 ; C12P 1934 ; C07H 2104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

This invention provides methods for discovering maintenance genes and for using maintenance genes. In one embodiment, the expression of at least three maintenance genes are measured and used as reference (or control) for comparing the expression of target genes in two or more biological samples.


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