Methods and compositions for the assessment of drug response
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- THERANOSTICS LAB
- Publication Date
- 2011-02-24
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
FIELD
[0001] Fields of the invention include responses to pharmaceutical drugs, methods for assessment of drug responses and prediction of subject responses to particular drugs and drug treatment regimes, and analyses of genetic polymorphisms and altered gene expression.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The following includes information that may be useful in understanding the present to inventions. It is not an admission that any of the information provided herein is prior art, or relevant, to the presently described or claimed inventions, or that any publication or document that is specifically or implicitly referenced is prior art.
[0003] One recent technological focus in the field of human genomics is pharmacogenomics, which includes efforts to use human DNA, sequence variability in the development and prescription of drugs. Pharmacogenomics is based on the correlation or association between a given genotype and a resulting phenotype. Since the first correlation study over half-a-cen...