DIAGNOSTIC METHOD USING NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION

摘要

A method of quickly and accurately detecting a disease-associated cell or a cell originating therefrom, which is contained in a first specimen, from a second specimen. Namely, a method of detecting a disease-associated cell or a cell originating therefrom, which is contained in a first specimen obtained from a subject, from a second specimen comprising: (a) the step of detecting a gene mutation associating the disease as described above in a genome contained in the first specimen; (b) the step of detecting the above-described gene mutation in a genome contained in the second specimen; and (c) the step of comparing the gene mutation detected in the first specimen with the gene mutation detected in the second specimen. In this method, it is pointed out that a disease-associated cell or a cell originating therefrom, which is contained in the first specimen, is detected from the second specimen in the case where the gene mutations thus detected are the same as each other.