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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Applicant:
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention methods and systems for determining copy number variation of a target polynucleotide in a genome of a subject including amplification based techniques. Methods can include pre-amplification of the sample followed by distribution of sample and a plurality of reaction volumes, quantitative detection of a target polynucleotide and a reference polynucleotide, and analysis so as to determine the relative copy number of the target polynucleotide sequence in the genome of the subject.