Patent 7943347 was granted and assigned to Hitachi on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Provided is a simple and highly sensitive nucleic acid amplification method including hybridizing two types of oligonucleotide probes with a target gene and ligating the oligonucleotide probes with DNA ligase and amplifying the resultant single-stranded oligonucleotide in accordance with LAMP.