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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Simant Dube, Berkeley, CA (US);
Alain Mir, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ramesh Ramakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Lesley Suzanne Weaver, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bernhard G. Zimmermann, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fluidigm Corporation, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C12P 19/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6853 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6809 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/16 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6886 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides for determining relative copy number difference for one or more target nucleic acid sequences between a test sample and a reference sample or reference value derived therefrom. The methods facilitate the detection of copy number differences less than 1.5-fold.