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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Mark D. Ayers, Pennington, NJ (US);
Jim Stec, Plymouth, MA (US);
Andrew Damokosh, West Hartford, CT (US);
Edwin Clark, Pennington, NJ (US);
Kenneth R. Hess, Houston, TX (US);
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Bellaire, TX (US);
Lajos Pusztai, Houston, TX (US);
W. Fraser Symmans, Houston, TX (US);
Robert C. Bast, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Mark D. Ayers, Pennington, NJ (US);
Jim Stec, Plymouth, MA (US);
Andrew Damokosh, West Hartford, CT (US);
Edwin Clark, Pennington, NJ (US);
Kenneth R. Hess, Houston, TX (US);
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, Bellaire, TX (US);
Lajos Pusztai, Houston, TX (US);
W. Fraser Symmans, Houston, TX (US);
Robert C. Bast, Jr., Houston, TX (US);
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Board of Regents, The University of Texas, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to compositions, kits, and methods for detecting, characterizing, preventing, and treating human breast cancers. A variety of newly identified markers are provided, wherein changes in the levels of expression of one or more of the markers is correlated with the presence of breast cancer.