Patent ID: 7514215
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: C12N,C12Q

Abstract:
1. A method for assisting a medical or research professional, wherein said method comprises: a) obtaining a biological sample from a mammal, and b) detecting the presence or absence of a plurality of SULT2A1 nucleotide sequence variants in said sample to obtain a variant profile of said mammal, wherein said nucleotide sequence variants are at positions selected from the group consisting of nucleotide 1718 of SEQ ID NO:18, nucleotide 207 of SEQ ID NO:2, nucleotide 699 of SEQ ID NO:2, nucleotide 801 of SEQ ID NO:2, nucleotide 1845 of SEQ ID NO:18, nucleotide 1929 of SEQ ID NO:18, nucleotide 173 of SEQ ID NO:19, nucleotide 294 of SEQ ID NO:19, nucleotide 397 of SEQ ID NO:20, nucleotide 47 of SEQ ID NO:21, nucleotide 83 of SEQ ID NO:21, nucleotide 337 of SEQ ID NO:21, nucleotide 274 of SEQ ID NO:1, and nucleotide 285 of SEQ ID NO:1.