Identification of differentially methylated and mutated nucleic acids
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Feb 16, 1999
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The present invention provides Methyl- (or Mutant-) Differential Display (MDD) methods and nucleic acid probes for detecting mutations and the methylation patterns of nucleic acids. The methods of the present invention are particularly useful for detecting and isolating genomic DNA fragments which are near coding and regulatory regions of genes and which are differentially mutated or methylated relative to the corresponding DNA from normal cells. Genes are frequently not methylated in the cells where they are expressed but are methylated in cell types where they are not expressed. Moreover, tumor cell DNA is frequently methylated to a different extent and in different regions than is the DNA of normal cells. The present invention is used for identifying which regions of the genome are methylated or mutated in different cell types, including cancerous cell types. The present invention is also used for diagnosing whether a tissue sample is cancerous, and whether that cancerous condition is non-metastatic or metastatic.
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