[Present and future prospects of individualized medical services by genetic tests]

With progress of human genome projects many gene mutations and their expression profiles have been much identified. Laboratory tests have become essential to achieve proper individualized medical services. In particular single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and gene expression profiles are of high interests. As one of these ongoing mmodels, we here present the SNPs of human Protein 1' also called as human Clara cell 10-kd protein (CC10). We initially found six different SNPs (A-908G, G38A, G118A, C1225T, G1226A, C4777G). For laboratory use multiplex PCR was developed to determine frequencies in normal control. The -908G and 38A genotypes were more frequent in sarcoidosis than those in controls. The SNPs of in the human protein 1 gene may be the genetic susceptibility factors for Sarcoidosis.