Patent ID: 9371558
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: C12Q

Claim Text:
1. A method for determining non-uniform nucleic acid amplification potential among members of a set of oligonucleotide primers that is capable of amplifying rearranged nucleic acid molecules encoding one or more adaptive immune receptors in a biological sample from a mammalian subject, the method comprising: (a) amplifying a composition comprising a plurality of synthetic template oligonucleotides comprising sequences of rearranged nucleic acid molecules encoding one or more adaptive immune receptors and one or more additional unique random polynucleotide sequences using a set of oligonucleotide primers in a single multiplex PCR reaction to obtain a plurality of amplified synthetic template oligonucleotides; (b) sequencing said plurality of amplified synthetic template oligonucleotides to determine, for each unique synthetic template oligonucleotide comprising said plurality, (c) comparing a frequency of occurrence of each of said synthetic template oligonucleotide sequences to an expected distribution, wherein a deviation between said frequency of occurrence of said synthetic template oligonucleotide sequences and said expected distribution indicates a non-uniform nucleic acid amplification potential among members of the set of oligonucleotide amplification primers.