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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
May. 11, 2006
Applicant:
Hubert Köster, Villa Wellingtonia, CH;
Inventor:
Hubert Köster, Villa Wellingtonia, CH;
Assignee:
Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Provided herein in certain embodiments are processes that generally include the following steps: amplifying a target nucleic acid molecule; ionizing and volatilizing the amplification product and analyzing the ionized and volatilized product by mass spectrometry. In some embodiments the amplification product is a natural nucleic acid and detection of the target nucleotide sequence by mass spectrometry indicates the presence of the target nucleotide sequence in the biological sample.