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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2010
Applicants:
Mathias Ehrich, San Diego, CA (US);
Anders Olof Herman Nygren, San Diego, CA (US);
Taylor Jacob Jensen, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mathias Ehrich, San Diego, CA (US);
Anders Olof Herman Nygren, San Diego, CA (US);
Taylor Jacob Jensen, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
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 ...
C12Q 1/6869 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6804 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6806 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6809 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6888 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are compositions and processes that utilize genomic regions that are differentially methylated between a mother and her fetus to separate, isolate or enrich fetal nucleic acid from a maternal sample. The compositions and processes described herein are particularly useful for non-invasive prenatal diagnostics, including the detection of chromosomal aneuplodies.