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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Gpb Scientific, Llc, Richmond, VA (US);
Daniel Shoemaker, San Diego, CA (US);
Ravi Kapur, Sharon, MA (US);
Mehmet Toner, Wellesley, MA (US);
Roland B. Stoughton, The Sea Ranch, CA (US);
Ronald W. Davis, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
GPB Scientific, LLC, Richmond, VA (US);
Verinata Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems, apparatuses, and methods to detect the presence of fetal cells when mixed with a population of maternal cells in a sample and to test fetal abnormalities, e.g. aneuploidy. The present invention involves labeling regions of genomic DNA in each cell in said mixed sample with different labels wherein each label is specific to each cell and quantifying the labeled regions of genomic DNA from each cell in the mixed sample. More particularly the invention involves quantifying labeled DNA polymorphisms from each cell in the mixed sample.