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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
David J. Eyre, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Randy P. Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Brian E. Caplin, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Wade R. Stevenson, West Jordan, UT (US);
Deepika Marine Desilva, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David J. Eyre, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Randy P. Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Brian E. Caplin, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Wade R. Stevenson, West Jordan, UT (US);
Deepika Marine deSilva, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Idaho Technology, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid quantification kit and method for determining the initial concentration or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid present in a sample. Illustrative embodiments include real-time competitive quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to determine the copy number or mass fraction of a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample and use of a thermodynamically based signal processing algorithm, with or without PCR, to provide mass fraction information.