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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Sudhir K. Sinha, Metairie, LA (US);
Jerilyn A. Walker, Breaux Bridge, LA (US);
Mark A. Batzer, Mandeville, LA (US);
Sudhir K. Sinha, Metairie, LA (US);
Jerilyn A. Walker, Breaux Bridge, LA (US);
Mark A. Batzer, Mandeville, LA (US);
Life Genetics Lab, LLC., New Orleans, LA (US);
Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Abstract
An assay for determining presence of human DNA in a sample in which non-human DNA may also be present and for quantitating such human DNA. One embodiment uses intra-Alu based PCR and another uses inter-Alu based PCR. The assays are performed without unique, expensive equipment. The assays are based on detection of multiple-copy Alu elements recently integrated into the human genome that are largely absent from non-human primates and other mammals.