遺伝子検査(5)

遺伝子検査市場の現状

大　谷　慎　一*
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Current Status of Gene Test Market

Shinichi OHTANI*

The technological innovation of the gene analysis makes the adaptation range of the gene test in clinical diagnosis expand. Then, gene test has popularized increasingly around the infection disease for clinical inspection. Also in the field of clinical inspection, the increase of the importance of clinical application and the inspection item new year by year have appeared with the functional analysis of a gene. Moreover, the new test method and automation analysis equipment tend to be developed by progress of gene-analysis technology, and it is going to be introduced. The spread of gene test and development of a gene test mar-ket have an important possibility of activating the present clinical inspection field.
[Rinsho Byori 50 : 1130〜1135, 2002 ]

*Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara 228-8555

【Key Words】gene test market(遺伝子検査市場)，gene tests(遺伝子検査)，single nucleotide polymorphism：SNPs，DNA microarray(DNA マイクロアレイ)，DNA Tip(DNA チップ)

*北里大学医学部臨床検査診断学(〒228-8555 相模原市北里1-15-1)

E-mail :ohtani@med.kitasato-u.ac.jp