NOURIN MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS DIAGNOSE ANGINA PATIENTS WITH NEGATIVE TROPONIN

摘要

The present invention provides a molecular network, devices, and assays for early diagnosis of angina patients experiencing acute chest pain with negative Troponin, and it reflects on disease progression and severity. The invention also allows for the diagnosis of angina in suspected patients with history of chest pain; differentiates between angina patients and acute myocardial infarction; as well as diagnose coronary artery disease patients from other non-cardiac and healthy individuals. The present invention indicates that the downregulation of Nourin IncCTB9H12.4 in coronary artery disease patients compared to non-cardiac and healthy controls, is significantly associated with upregulation of miR_106b and miR_137 resulting in overexpression of mRNA ANAPC11 and mRNA FTLH-17; respectively. Therefore, the invention provides a novel non-invasive good positive test to diagnose angina patients which also, has a good negative test to exclude chest pain non-angina patients and healthy individuals.