METHOD FOR PREDICTING ONCOLOGICAL DISEASES Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, diagnostics.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with genetic trials, with diagnostic field of oncological diseases due to analyzing DNA by altered status of gene methylation that take part in intracellular regulation of division, differentiating, apoptosis and detoxication processes. One should measure the status of methylation in three genes: p16, E-cadherine and GSTP1 in any human biological samples taken out of blood plasma, urine, lymph nodes, tumor tissue, inter-tissue liquid, ascitic liquid, blood cells and buccal epithelium and other; one should analyze DNA in which modified genes of tumor origin or their components are present that contain defective genes, moreover, analysis should be performed due to extracting and purifying DNA out of biological samples followed by bisulfite treatment of this DNA for modifying unprotected cytosine foundations at keeping 5-methyl cytosine being a protected cytosine foundation followed by PCR assay of bisulfite-treated and bisulfite-untreated genes under investigation and at detecting alterations obtained according to electrophoretic result of PCR amplificates, due to detecting the difference in the number and electrophoretic mobility of corresponding fractions at comparing with control methylated and unmethylated samples containing normal and hypermethylated forms of genes one should diagnose oncological diseases. The method provides higher reliability in detecting tumors, detection of remained tumor cells after operation.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

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