155 results about "Inherited disease" patented technology

Described is a method for at least in part decreasing the production of an aberrant protein in a cell, the cell comprising pre-mRNA comprising exons coding for the protein, by inducing so-called exon skipping in the cell. Exon-skipping results in mature mRNA that does not contain the skipped exon, which leads to an altered product of the exon codes for amino acids. Exon skipping is performed by providing a cell with an agent capable of specifically inhibiting an exon inclusion signal, for instance, an exon recognition sequence, of the exon. The exon inclusion signal can be interfered with by a nucleic acid comprising complementarity to a part of the exon. The nucleic acid, which is also herewith provided, can be used for the preparation of a medicament, for instance, for the treatment of an inherited disease.

The present invention provides a technology called Pulse-Multiline Excitation or PME. This technology provides a novel approach to fluorescence detection with application for high-throughput identification of informative SNPs, which could lead to more accurate diagnosis of inherited disease, better prognosis of risk susceptibilities, or identification of sporadic mutations. The PME technology has two main advantages that significantly increase fluorescence sensitivity: (1) optimal excitation of all fluorophores in the genomic assay and (2) “color-blind” detection, which collects considerably more light than standard wavelength resolved detection. Successful implementation of the PME technology will have broad application for routine usage in clinical diagnostics, forensics, and general sequencing methodologies and will have the capability, flexibility, and portability of targeted sequence variation assays for a large majority of the population.

The present invention provides novel conformationally-defined macrocyclic compounds that can function as selective modulators of the ghrelin receptor (growth hormone secretagogue receptor, GHS-R1a and subtypes, isoforms and variants thereof). Methods of synthesizing the novel compounds are also described herein. These compounds are useful as agonists of the ghrelin receptor and as medicaments for treatment and prevention of a range of medical conditions including, but not limited to, metabolic and/or endocrine disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disorders, obesity and obesity-associated disorders, central nervous system disorders, bone disorders, genetic disorders, hyperproliferative disorders and inflammatory disorders.

The method for genome analysis translates the clinical findings in the patient into a comprehensive test order for genes that can be causative of the patient's illness, delimits analysis of variants identified in the patient's genome to those that are “on target” for the patient's illness, and provides clinical annotation of the likely causative variants for inclusion in a variant warehouse that is updated as a result of each sample that is analyzed and that, in turn, provides a source of additional annotation for variants. The method uses a genome sequence having the steps of entering at least one clinical feature of a patient by an end-user, assigning a weighted value to the term based on the probability of the presence of the term, mapping the term to at least one disease by accessing a knowledge base containing a plurality of data sets, wherein the data sets are made up of associations between (i) clinical features and diseases, (ii) diseases and genes, (iii) genes and genetic variants, and (iv) diseases and gene variants, assigning a truth value to each of the mapped terms based on the associated data sets and the weighted value, to provide a list of results of possible diagnoses prioritized based on the truth values, with continuous adjustment of the weightings of associations in the knowledge base based on updating of each discovered diagnosis and attendant clinical features, genes and gene variants. This method can be performed in fifty hours or twenty-four hours or less.

Methods of modifying, repairing, attenuating and inactivating a gene or other chromosomal DNA in a cell are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treating or prophylaxis of a genetic disease in an individual in need thereof. Further disclosed are chimeric restriction endonucleases.

The present disclosure relates to methods for detecting unique genetic signatures derived from markers such as, for example, mutations, somatic or germ-line, in nucleic acids obtained from biological samples. The sensitivity of the methods provides for detection of mutations associated with a disease, e.g., cancer mutations, or with inherited disease, e.g., an autosomal recessive disease, in a noninvasive manner at ultra-low proportions of sequences carrying mutations to sequences carrying normal, e.g., non-cancer sequences, or a reference sequence, e.g., a human reference genome.

The invention relates to the technical field of biology, and relates to a human X-chromosome composite amplification system composed of 20 short serially-connected repetitive sequences and applications thereof. The composite amplification system comprises 20 pairs of primers and is capable of amplifying 19 STR sites: DXS6795, DXS6803, DXS6807, DXS9907, DXS7423, GATA172D05, DXS101, DXS9902, DXS7133, DXS9810, GATA31E08, DXS6800, DXS981, DXS10162, DXS6809, GATA165B12, DXS10079, DXS10135, and HPRTB, and one sex recognition site: Amelogenin. Five-color fluorescence labeling is adopted by the system, the size of amplification products is in a range of 85 to 450 bp, the operation is simple, and the individual recognition performance is high. The sites provided by the provided composite amplification system are highly compatible to the conventional commonly-used X-STR kits, moreover, sites with high polymorphism information are provided, and the provided composite amplification system can be applied to paternity identification related with X-chromosome, individual recognition, and auxiliary detection of X-chromosome sex-linked hereditary diseases.

The invention provides a screening method of all inherited metabolic disorder genes for genetic diagnosis within an exon area, which is fast and accurate and can cover the newest inherited metabolic disorder genes. The method provided by the invention comprises the following steps of: drawing 3-5ml of blood from an individual, extracting 3-5 microgrammes of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) from the blood, interrupting and amplifying the DNA to construct a whole genome library for the patient, capturing the virulence genes by using an inherited metabolic disorder gene scanning kit provided by the invention, carrying out high-throughput sequencing by using a sequencing machine, and analyzing and finding mutation information relevant to the genes so as to obtain the mutation conditions of the inherited metabolic disorder genes of the individual to reach the purpose of accurate genetic diagnosis. Dozens of to thousands of genes and millions of loci can be captured and detected once by taking advantage of the high-throughput sequencing, and the screening method covers known 700 inherited metabolic disorders.

The present invention relates to systems, methods and software arrangements for the detection of variations in the copy number of a gene in a genome. These systems, methods and software arrangements are based on a simple prior model that uses a first process generating amplifications and deletions in the genome, and a second process modifying the signal obtained to account for the corrupting noise inherent in the technical methodology used to scan the genome. A Bayesian approach according to the present invention determines, e.g., the most plausible hypothesis of regional changes in the genome and their associated copy number. The systems, methods, and software arrangements can be are framed as optimization problems, in which a score function is minimized. The system, methods and software arrangements may be useful to assist the scientific study, diagnosis and/or treatment of any disease which has a genetic component, including but not limited to cancers and inherited diseases.

The present invention relates to chimeric RNA oligonucleotides that are single-stranded oligonucleotides. These compounds are capable of targeting particular genes and reducing DNA methyltransferase activity. Accordingly, these compounds are particularly useful in the treatment of disease associated with aberrant DNA methyltransferase activity, such as cancer or a genetic disorder.

The invention provides a biological information analysis method for human single-gene genetic disease detection. The method comprises the following steps: S1, screening mutation harmful sites; S2, screening the sample relationship of human single-gene genetic disease detection; S3, performing gene function screening. According to the method, harmful mutation sites can be quickly and clearly screened from human exon sequencing data; the annotation analysis on the detected SNP, InDel and other genomic variations and an external database is carried out to determine the genomic position, variationfrequency, protein harmfulness, genotype heterozygosity, functional pathways and other information of the variations; the candidate genes are screened by using an autosomal invisible genetic model, an autosomal dominant genetic model, new mutation screening and common mutation gene screening, so the candidate genes are determined, GO and KEGG enrichment analysis is performed on the candidate genes, and powerful evidences are provided for determining the candidate genes related to diseases.