Patent Document ID: 20040023288
Application ID: 10633484
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Claim One:
1. A method for diagnosing a medically relevant condition of a patient, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a raw sample containing cells or cell debris from a patient; (b) preparing a sample solution from the raw sample; (c) detecting the levels of one or more relevant markers characteristic for said medically relevant condition in said sample solution; (d) detecting the levels of one or more normalization markers characteristic for at least one of the following normalization parameters: the presence or absence of a particular cell type among the cells represented within the sample solution, the presence or absence of a particular differentiation pattern in the cells represented within the sample solution, the presence or absence of particular proliferation properties of the cells represented within the sample solution, (e) normalizing the detected levels of said one or more relevant markers with respect to said at least one of the normalization parameters; and (f) diagnosing the medically relevant condition based on the normalized levels of the relevant markers to the normalization parameters.