Replies to post #69429 on DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[johnnyfiber]

Big Brother....Dnaprint:

Multiplex assays for inferring ancestry Document Type and Number:United States Patent 20070037182

Inventors:Gaskin, James Z. (Sarasota, FL, US)
Thomas, Matthew J. (Bradenton, FL, US)
Frudakis, Tony N. (Bradenton, FL, US)
Shriver, Mark D. (State College, PA, US)
Application Number:357729 Filing Date:02/17/2006 Publication Date:02/15/2007

[0038] Accordingly, the present invention also relates to an article of manufacture, which is at least one photograph of a person having a known proportional ancestry corresponding to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA, as well as to a plurality of such articles, each article of the plurality comprising one (or more) photograph(s) of a person having a known proportional ancestry corresponding to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA. The article can be contained in a file, or a plurality of the articles can be contained in a filed, for example, a file containing a plurality of photographs of different persons, wherein the some or all of the persons have the same or different known proportional ancestries that correspond to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA.

[0039] Accordingly, a plurality of such articles is provided, as is a plurality of files, each file of which can contain one or more articles, i.e., photographs, which can be of one or more persons having the same or different known proportional ancestries that correspond to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA. For example, different files of the plurality each can contain one (or more) photograph(s) of one person having a known proportional ancestry corresponding to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA. Different files of the plurality also can contain photographs of two or more different persons, each of whom has the same or substantially the same proportional ancestry corresponding to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA. As such, a plurality of files can contain files, each of which contains one or more photographs of one or more persons, and when containing one or more photographs of two or more different persons, the different persons can have the same or different known proportional ancestries.

[0040] In one embodiment, the article of manufacture, i.e., the photograph of a person having a known proportional ancestry corresponding to a population structure comprising nucleotide occurrences of AIMs indicative of BGA, is a digital photograph, which comprises digital information. As such, the digital information of the digital photograph, or of a plurality of digital photograph articles of manufacture of the invention can be contained in a database. As such, the present invention further provides a plurality of the articles of manufactures, including at least two digital photographs each of which comprises digital information. In one aspect of this embodiment, the digital information for one or a plurality of the articles is contained in a database, which can be contained in any medium suitable for containing such a database, including, for example, computer hardware or software, a magnetic tape, or a computer disc such as floppy disc, CD, or DVD. As such, the database can be accessed through a computer, which can contain the database therein, can accept a medium containing the database, or can access the database through a wired or wireless network, e.g., an intranet or internet.


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[johnnyfiber]

david, I'd spent quite a bit of time referencing links b/w alzheimers and diabetes....thinking it might be Dnaprint that would find the biomarkers associated with the diseases...then to discover the diseases had been associated and a former partner of ours found them...left me with an arrow through my balloon.

And wondering... if there was any transfer of our technology to Nanogen. I can't find any formal agreements b/w Nanogen and Dnaprint or a formal cessation of business activities.

I didn't like the way Frudakis left Genomed...left many questions...

I felt more assured after noting the dates of patent publication. I'm not declaring anything definitive here, but I would like to know if there is any affilitation b/w the two companies at this time.

Multiplex assays for inferring ancestry Document Type and Number:United States Patent 20070037182

Inventors:Gaskin, James Z. (Sarasota, FL, US)
Thomas, Matthew J. (Bradenton, FL, US)
Frudakis, Tony N. (Bradenton, FL, US)
Shriver, Mark D. (State College, PA, US)
Application Number:357729 Filing Date:02/17/2006 Publication Date:02/15/2007

Nanogen, Inc. (NGEN) Awarded Patents for Biomarkers Associated with Diabetes, Alzheimers Disease
2/28/2007