Inventors:
Uri Lopatin - San Francisco CA, US
Tom Chu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Laurent Essioux - Attenschwiller, FR
Soren Germer - Maplewood NJ, US
Nancy Shulman - Palo Alto CA, US
James A. Thommes - San Francisco CA, US
Assignee:
ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS, INC. - Pleasanton CA
International Classification:
C12Q 1/68, G01N 33/50
Abstract:
The present invention is based on the discovery of associations that exist between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on chromosome 19 and virological outcomes in a diverse population of patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) who received interferon-based treatment.