Patent ID: 8460873
Filing Date: 2013-06-11
Classification: A61P,C07K

Abstract:
1. A method of identifying human pancreatic cells as being cancerous comprising the steps of: determining the amount of an expression product of the entire sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15, or the complement thereof, or a naturally occurring variant of SEQ ID NO: 15 with no more than 5% of base pair mismatches to SEQ ID NO: 15, or the complement thereof, in sample human pancreatic cells suspected of being cancerous and in normal human pancreatic cells, wherein said expression product is a mRNA molecule, further wherein said amount of said expression product is determined with nucleic acid hybridization or nucleic acid amplification using at least one probe or primer comprising at least 12 contiguous nucleotides from and specific to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 15 or its complement; comparing the determined amounts of said expression product; and identifying sample human pancreatic cells which contain more of said expression product than the normal human pancreatic cells as being cancerous.