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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Mars, Inc., McLean, VA (US);
Inventors:
Paul Glyn Jones, Leicestershire, GB;
Alan James Martin, Leicestershire, GB;
Assignee:
MARS, INCORPORATED, McLean, VA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); A61K 33/34 (2006.01); A23K 1/175 (2006.01); A23K 1/18 (2006.01); A61K 33/30 (2006.01); A61K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 33/34 (2013.01); A23K 1/175 (2013.01); A23K 1/1758 (2013.01); A23K 1/1853 (2013.01); A61K 9/0056 (2013.01); A61K 33/30 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6883 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6888 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/156 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/172 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of testing a dog to determine the likelihood that the dog is protected from liver copper accumulation, comprising detecting in a sample the presence or absence in the genome of the dog of one or more polymorphisms selected from (a) SNP ATP7a_Reg3_F_6 (SEQ ID NO:142) and (b) one or more polymorphisms in linkage disequilibrium with (a).