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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2006
Catriona Helen M. Jamieson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford, CA (US);
Catriona Helen M. Jamieson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and kits are provided for the clinical staging of blood disorders including myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloproliferative diseases and leukemias by differential analysis of hematologic samples for the distribution of one or more hematopoietic stem or progenitor cell subsets. Additional functional, genetic, gene expression, proteomic or other molecular analyses of the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from the patients can also be employed in the staging methods of the invention.