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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2007
Applicants:
Wei Yu, Berkeley, CA (US);
Johji Inazawa, Tokyo, JP;
Issei Imoto, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting cancer through identification of genes exhibiting characteristic behavior in the cases of cancer such as anaplastic thyroid cancer. The present invention provides a method for detecting cancer which comprises detecting canceration of a specimen using the amplification of a gene of the p12 region of chromosome 8 in the specimen as an indicator.