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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2006
Yejun Tan, Seattle, WA (US);
Hongyue Dai, Kenmore, WA (US);
Pek Yee Lum, Seattle, WA (US);
John Ryan Thompson, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Joel Peter Berger, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Eric Stanley Muise, New York, NY (US);
Richard F Raubertas, Essex, VT (US);
Kenny Kin Chung Wong, Edison, NJ (US);
Yejun Tan, Seattle, WA (US);
Hongyue Dai, Kenmore, WA (US);
Pek Yee Lum, Seattle, WA (US);
John Ryan Thompson, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Joel Peter Berger, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Eric Stanley Muise, New York, NY (US);
Richard F Raubertas, Essex, VT (US);
Kenny Kin Chung Wong, Edison, NJ (US);
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Rahway, NJ (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, the present invention provides methods of determining whether an agent is more like a partial agonist of a target molecule than a full agonist of the same target molecule. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods to select a candidate compound that may reduce blood plasma glucose concentration in a mammal. Populations of genes are provided that are useful in the practice of the present invention.