METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING POLYMORPHISM OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES

摘要

The present invention provides a method for identifying polymorphism of nucleic acids in a sample solution in which the concentration or number density of the observed nucleic acids is lower than that of conventional photometric analysis technologies. The method includes: a step of preparing a sample solution comprising a first nucleic acid probe, which specifically hybridizes with a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule including a first type of base sequence in a polymorphic sequence, and a target nucleic acid molecule; a step of forming a hybrid of the nucleic acid molecules in the sample solution; a step of calculating a number of molecules of the hybrid including the first nucleic acid probe in the sample solution by the scanning molecule counting method; and a step of identifying polymorphism of the target nucleic acid molecule based on the calculating result. The sample solution includes an oligonucleotide having a base sequence complementary to a base sequence different from the first type of base sequence in the polymorphic sequence.