Patent ID: 6090559
Filing Date: 2000-07-18
Classification: A61K,C07K,C12Q

Abstract:
A method for detecting a prostate cancer cell in a biological sample comprising:a) amplifying ribonucleic acids from said sample to form nucleic acid amplification products;b) contacting said amplification products with an oligonucleotide probe that hybridizes under high stringency conditions to a nucleic acid segment comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO:4, SEQ ID NO:5, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:12 or SEQ ID NO:13;c) determining the amount of said amplification products that hybridize with said probe; andd) comparing said amount to the quantity of amplification products from normal or benign prostate tissue that hybridize with said probe under identical conditions;wherein a difference in the amount of amplification products indicates the presence of a prostate cancer cell.