Method for Determining the Abundance of Sequences in a Sample

摘要

The invention relates to a method for determining the abundance of a given sequence or several sequences identical or nearly identical to the given sequence in a sample. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out one or more amplification reactions by means of which several different sections of the sequence or sequences of the sample can be amplified to give an amplified product, detection of whether given different sections of the sequence in the sample have been amplified and determination of the number of the sequence(s) in the sample by means of the abundance of the presence or otherwise of the given different sections in the amplified product.