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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Applicants:
Simon Stacey, Kopavogur, IS;
Patrick Sulem, Reykjavik, IS;
Andrei Manolescu, Reykjavik, IS;
Inventors:
Assignee:
deCODE Genetics ehf., Reykjavik, IS;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C07H 21/02 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention pertains to certain genetic variants on Chr5p12 and Chr10q26 as susceptibility variants of breast cancer. Methods of disease management, including diagnosing increased and/or decreased susceptibility to breast cancer, methods of predicting response to therapy and methods of predicting prognosis using such variants are described. The invention further relates to kits useful in the methods of the invention.