METHOD OF ANALYZING NUCLEIC ACID SPECIFYING GENE SHOWING CHANGE IN EXPRESSION DOSE DUE TO SCHIZOPHRENIA

摘要

To objectively diagnose schizophrenia with the use of gene expression as an indication, it is intended to provide a method of analyzing whether or not the expression dose of a nucleic acid specifying a gene which shows a change in its expression dose due to schizophrenia in a test subject statistically falls within the range of the expression dose of normal subjects. This method is characterized by involving the step of quantifying the expression dose of a nucleic acid specifying a gene which shows a change in its expression dose due to schizophrenia and/or a protein encoded by the above nucleic acid specifying a gene which shows a change in its expression dose due to schizophrenia in a sample collected from a test subject.