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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2010
Applicants:
Manfred Wirth, Dresden, DE;
Susanne Fuessel, Dresden, DE;
Rainer Koch, Radebeul, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C40B 30/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates on a non-invasive method for diagnosing prostate cancer and/or assessing the risk of a subject acquiring prostate cancer comprising the analysis of the expression of the marker gene hepsin in an urine sample. It further relates on a non-invasive method for diagnosing prostate cancer and/or assessing the risk of a subject acquiring prostate cancer by determining the expression levels of the marker genes hepsin, EZH2, prostein and PCA3.