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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Hidenori Kiyosawa, Tsukuba, JP;
Hiroshi Yasue, Tsukuba, JP;
Nobuhiro Ohkohchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Inventors:
Assignees:
Riken, Wako-shi, JP;
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba-shi, JP;
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention provides a method for cancer diagnosis comprising measuring an endogenous antisense RNA whose relative expression to a sense RNA changes cancer-specifically in RNA-containing samples collected from a mammal. Also provided are endogenous antisense RNAs useful as cancer markers, and cancer diagnostic reagents containing the same.