Patent ID: 6916642

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a splice variant of a gene sequence capable of being spliced to result in a reference human telomerase encoding SEQ ID No: 2, wherein the splice variant has at least one of the following insertions or deletions: (a) an insertion of sequences X (comprising SEQ ID No: 32) at nucleotide 1766 of SEQ ID No: 1; (b) an insertion of nucleic acid sequence encoding sequence 1 (SEQ ID No: 24) at nucleotide 1950 of SEQ ID No: 1; (c) a deletion of nucleotides 2131 through 2166 of SEQ ID No: 1; (d) a deletion of nucleotides 2287 through 2468 of SEQ ID No: 1; (e) an insertion of sequence 2 comprising SEQ ID No: 29 at nucleotide 2843 of SEQ ID No: 1; and (f) an insertion of nucleic acid sequence encoding sequence 3 (SEQ ID No: 31) at nucleotide 3157 of SEQ ID No: 1, and wherein the splice variant does not encode SEQ ID No: 2.