COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING KIDNEY CANCER AND ESTIMATING KIDNEY CANCER PATIENT'S PROGNOSIS

摘要

A composition for detecting and diagnosing kidney cancer, diagnosing the metastasis of kidney cancer and/or estimating the prognosis of kidney cancer containing one or more polynucleotides selected from the group consisting of a polynucleotide, which shows a variation in the expression level in a kidney cancer cell originating in a patient with poor prognosis compared with a kidney cancer cell of a patient having favorable prognosis, its variant or a fragment thereof, or an antibody, which binds specifically to such a polypeptide showing a variation in the expression level as described above or its fragment, or a fragment thereof; a kit; a DNA chip; and utilization of the same.