Specific nucleic-acid fragments of the human villin gene and their application to diagnostic ends.

摘要

The invention relates to nucleic acid fragments, characterised in that they comprise from 8 to 40 nucleotides and in that their sequence is contained either in the coding DNA sequence of the human villin gene, or in any DNA fragment exactly complementary to one of the above fragments and containing, as a result, the same number of deoxynucleotides, or in any corresponding RNA fragment containing the same number of ribonucleotides. The invention also relates to the use of these fragments in a method for detecting in vitro the presence of a nucleic acid characteristic of human villin.