TRANSCRIPTOME MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME
Application 1717/KOLNP/2007 published 2007-07-27, filed 2007-05-15
Arrays containing a transcriptome of a diseased tissue and methods of using the arrays for diagnosis, prognosis, screening, and identification of disease and provided herein. The transcriptome arrays from diseased tissue are useful for diagnosis of a disease by analysis of the genetic profile of a tissue sample specific to a disease state. The genetic profiles are then correlated with data on the effectiveness of specific therapeutic agents. Correlating expression profiles to the effectiveness of therapeutic agents provides a way to screen and select further patients predicted to respond to those therapeutic agents, thereby minimizing needles exposure to ineffective therapy.
Applicant
1)ALMAC DIAGNOSTICS LIMITED
:ALMAC HOUSE 20 SEAGOE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CRAIGAVON, BT63 5QD, NORTHERN IRELAND GREAT BRITAIN U.K.
Inventor
1)HARKIN, PAUL 2)JOHNSTON, PATRICK 3)MULLIGAN, KARL 4)TANNEY, AUSTIN
International Info
Classification: C12Q 1/68
Publication Number: WO 2006/048291
Application Date: 2005-11-03
Priority Information
04105479.2 EUROPEAN UNION 2004-11-03