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The present invention relates to a process for determining the quantity of a DNA fragment of interest in a sample wherein: 1) a standard DNA fragment can be amplified with the same oligonucleotide primers is added to the sample to be analyzed containing the DNA fragment of interest, the standard DNA fragment and the fragment of interest differing in sequence and/or in size by not more than 10%, 2) the DNA fragment of interest and the standard fragment are coamplified with the same primers, preferably to saturation of the amplification of the DNA fragment of interest, 3) one or more labeled oligonucleotide primer(s), specific for the DNA fragment of interest and the standard fragment and different from the primers of step 2), is/are added to the reaction medium obtained in step 2), so that, after denaturation of the DNA, said primer(s) hybridize(s) with said fragments at a suitable site in order that an elongation with the DNA polymerase generates labeled DNA fragments of different sizes and/or sequences or with different labels according to whether they originate from the DNA fragment of interest or the standard fragment, respectively, and then 4) the initial quantity of DNA fragment of interest is determined as being the product of the initial quantity of standard DNA fragment and the ratio of the quantity of amplified DNA fragment of interest to the quantity of amplified standard DNA fragment.

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