A NON-INVASIVE METHOD FOR MONITORING TRANSPLANTED ORGAN STATUS IN ORGAN-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

摘要

The present invention pertains to a non-invasive method for monitoring transplanted organ status in organ-transplant recipients by determining the ratio of donor derived marker sequences to the marker sequences of the transplant recipient from circulating cell free DNA of the transplant recipients using digital droplet PCR. The invention also determined a normalized threshold value of the total circulating cell free nucleic acids healthy as well as in post-transplantation patients for assessing and monitoring transplanted organ status in organ-transplant recipients.