Pervasive sequence patents cover the entire human genome

Genome Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Rosenfeld, Jeffrey ^a,b   Mason, Christopher E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRCA1 PROTEIN; DNA;

GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84875336972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm431     Document Type: Letter

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