Abstract: The disclosure relates to novel epitopes specific for narcolepsy and their uses in methods for evaluating a subject for narcolepsy, in medical and diagnostic devices and in therapy.

Abstract: A method of forming a metadatabase of minimal epitope profiles including: performing antibody activity profiling from an immunoglobulin fraction of a plurality of samples to form a data set of peptide profiles for each sample, comparing peptide profiles across different samples, assigning a diagnosis or disorder to differentially expressed meta-profiles, constructing a meta-database containing minimal epitope clusters, constructing a database of peptide frequencies, aligning peptides to define the sequence of minimal epitope, verifying the minimal epitope by harboring a connected identifier, providing an enriched affinity sample, and providing a source data for metadatabase a database underlying it.

Abstract: Methods of manipulation of nucleic acid, in particular amplification by means of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), including use of oligonucleotides and combinations and kits comprising such oligonucleotides, also methods comprising use of nested PCR, allowing for improved results in methods wherein large numbers of nucleic acid fragments are manipulated by means of PCR and electrophoresis. Oligonucleotides are provided for use a size standards in electrophoresis, and internal controls allowing for calculation of relative amounts of material present. Improved results can be achieved in methods of profiling mRNA transcribed in a system under investigation.