NOVEL BIOMARKER FOR LIVER CANCER AND APPLICATIONS FOR SAME

• Main Authors: JIYOUNG, KANG MIN A, KIM JAE WHA, SONG EUN YOUNG, YEOM YOUNG II, KIM YOUNG JOO, LEE JUNG II, KANG YOON HEE, LEE HEE GU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.12.2011
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; ENZYMOLOGY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIBRARIES, e.g. CHEMICAL LIBRARIES, IN SILICOLIBRARIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; SUGARS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention relates to the elucidation of a gene that can act as a novel marker for liver cancer diagnosis and to diagnostic and prognostic measurements of liver cancer using the same. More specifically, it relates to a diagnosis kit that enables diagnostic and prognostic measurement of a liver cancer using a preparation that measures expression levels of at least one gene selected from a group of liver cancer diagnosis markers consisting of S100P, NK4, CCL20, CSPG2, PLAU, MMP12, ESM-1, ABHD7, HCAPG, CXCL-3, Col5A2, MAGEA, GSN, CDC2, CST1, MELK, ATAD2, FAP and MSN and/or a method for diagnostic and prognostic measurement of liver cancer using the same. These have been discovered using normal liver tissues and liver cancer tissues collected from the same liver cancer patient of the present invention and represent the markers whose accuracy and reliability have been greatly improved as markers of liver cancer. The markers of the present invention can be used for the accurate diagnosis and prognosis of liver cancer.