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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2002
Applicants:
Puranam Usha Sarma, Delhi, IN;
Taruna Madan, Delhi, IN;
Shweta Saxena, Delhi, IN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a method for predicting the susceptibility of an individual to pulmonary tuberculosis, the method comprising amplifying genomic DNA of pulmonary tuberculosis patients and normal control individuals using oligonuecleotide primers, sequencing the amplified PCR product and identifying the sequence variation computationally by comparing it with the already existing sequence of human SP-A2 gene.