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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2004
Yuk-ming Dennis Lo, Kowloon, HK;
Kai on NG, New Territories, HK;
BO Yin Tsui, Kowloon, HK;
Wai Kwun Rossa Chiu, New Territories, HK;
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo, Kowloon, HK;
Kai On Ng, New Territories, HK;
Bo Yin Tsui, Kowloon, HK;
Wai Kwun Rossa Chiu, New Territories, HK;
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, SAR, HK;
Abstract
Methods and kits are provided for diagnosing, monitoring, or predicting the conditions of pre-eclaimpsia, fetal chromosomal aneuploidy, and pre-term labor in a pregnant woman, as well as for detecting pregnancy in a woman, by quantitatively measuring in the maternal blood the amount of one or more mRNA species encoding human chorionic gonadotropin β subunit (hCG-β), human placental lactogen (hPL), human corticotropin releasing hormone (hCRH), KiSS-1 metastasis-suppressor (KISS1), tissue factor pathway inhibitor 2 (TPFI2), placenta-specific 1 (PLAC1), or glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), and comparing the amount of the mRNA species with a standard control.