US Patent Issued to GC GENOME on June 17 for "Method for diagnosing cancer and predicting type of cancer based on single nucleotide variant in cell-free DNA" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,364, issued on June 17, was assigned to GC GENOME Corp. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method for diagnosing cancer and predicting type of cancer based on single nucleotide variant in cell-free DNA" was invented by JungKyoon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Gyuhee Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Hae Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Chang-Seok Ki (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Junnam Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of diagnosing cancer and predicting the type of cancer based on a single nucleotide variant in a cell-free nucleic acid including extracting nucleic acids from a biological sample t...