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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
May. 19, 2005
Applicant:
Andrew Thompson, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Andrew Thompson, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Trillion Genomics Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to the use of mass labelled probes to characterize nucleic acids by mass spectrometry. Thus the invention provides methods of detecting the presence of a target nucleic acid in a sample, using a circularizing probe in which a mass tag is present in the probe. Further methods of detecting the presence of a target nucleic acid are provided, which in contrast use a probe detection sequence in the circularizing probe, wherein the probe detection sequence is detected with a probe attached to a mass tag. Methods for determining a genetic profile from the genome of an organism also form part of the invention.