Patent ID: 8512951
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: A61K,A61P,C12N,C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method of diagnosing a subject having stomach cancer, comprising: obtaining a nucleic acid-containing test sample from a subject suspected of having stomach cancer, wherein the sample is extracted from stomach cells; measuring, by hybridization assay, a level of at least one miR gene product of miR-21 in the test sample; comparing the level of at least one miR gene product of miR-21 in the test sample from the subject to a control level of non-cancerous stomach cells of at least one corresponding miR gene product of miR-21; and diagnosing the subject as having stomach cancer, if the level of the at least one miR gene product in the test sample from the subject is miR-21 and is greater than the control level for the corresponding miR gene product of miR-21.