title: [Current status of gene test market].
abstract: 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 market have an important possibility of activating the present clinical inspection field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara 228-8555.
authors.forename: Shinichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohtani
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics; D004351:Drug Resistance / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000235:genetics; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics; D008019:Life Style; D025202:Molecular Diagnostic Techniques / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D009765:Obesity / Q000235:genetics; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide