Patent ID: 9057109
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: C12Q,G16B,G16C

Abstract:
1. A method of detecting melanoma in a human subject comprising: (a) obtaining a sample of a skin lesion suspected of comprising melanoma from a human subject, wherein the skin lesion sample comprises or is suspected of comprising a nucleic acid molecule expressed from C6orf218; (b) detecting the presence of a nucleic acid molecule expressed from C6orf218 in the skin lesion sample, whereby the presence of a nucleic acid molecule expressed from C6orf218 in the skin lesion sample in an amount that is greater than the presence of C6orf218 in a non-melanoma sample is indicative of melanoma in the skin lesion sample, wherein detecting the presence of a nucleic acid molecule expressed from C6orf218 is by application of a detectably labeled probe that hybridizes to a nucleic acid molecule expressed from C6orf218; and (c) characterizing the skin lesion as having melanoma or not having melanoma.