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Patent No.:

US 9447472 B1

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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2012
Applicants:

Yae Kanai, Tokyo, JP;

Eri Arai, Tokyo, JP;

Ryo Nagashio, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yae Kanai, Tokyo, JP;

Eri Arai, Tokyo, JP;

Ryo Nagashio, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6886 (2013.01); C12Q 2600/154 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention aims at providing a method for assessing risk of hepatocellular carcinoma with high sensitivity and specificity. Extracted were 30 regions containing 45 CpG sites which have DNA methylation levels significantly different between in normal liver tissue samples and in noncancerous liver tissue samples from patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. It was found that the noncancerous liver tissue samples from patients with HCC were able to be assessed for risk of hepatocellular carcinoma by setting cutoff values for distinguishing between the normal liver tissue samples and the noncancerous liver tissue samples from patients with HCC for the extracted 30 regions.


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