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Patent Inventor Names
Shan Jiang0
Andrew P. Feinberg0
Liora Strichman-Almashanu0
Date of Patent
July 26, 2011
0Patent Application Number
123501590
Date Filed
January 7, 2009
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
Provided is a method for isolating methylated CpG islands. The method includes identifying an imprinted gene adjacent to the methylated CpG island, and identifying a disease which is preferentially transmitted by one parent and which is genetically linked to region of genomic DNA which contains the imprinted gene, whereby the imprinted gene is thereby indicated as a candidate gene involved in transmitting the disease.
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