Patent ID: 6344317
Filing Date: 2002-02-05
Classification: C12Q

Abstract:
A method of detecting the presence of a target human nucleic acid in an acellular biological sample from a patient, the method comprising:providing the acellular biological sample; contacting the sample with a nucleic acid probe which specifically hybridizes to the target human nucleic acid, wherein the target human nucleic acid is an RNA molecule comprising sequences transcribed from human germline DNA, and wherein the nucleic acid probe is selected from a) a nucleic acid probe consisting of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2, SEQ ID NO:3, or SEQ ID NO:4; and b) a nucleic acid probe that hybridizes under stringent conditions of 0.2Ã—SSC at about 60Â° C. to SEQ ID NO:18, SEQ ID NO:19, SEQ ID NO:20, SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:24, SEQ ID NO:25, or SEQ ID NO:26; and detecting a hybridization complex comprising the nucleic acid probe as indicative of the presence of the target human nucleic acid in the acellular biological sample.