Disclosed is a
gene sensitive to a normal-tension
glaucoma disease. Also disclosed is a method for utilizing the
gene. Comprehensive analysis / comparison was made on single
nucleotide polymorphisms on the entire
genome in many normal-tension
glaucoma patients and many normal persons, and it is found that there is a difference in polymorphism sites found in ELOVL5-containing regions on human
chromosome-6 and the like among the patients and the normal persons, wherein the polymorphism sites are represented by the international
single nucleotide polymorphism numbers rs222450, rs9474394, rs2816344, rs2816341, rs2518579, rs2518578, rs9367511, rs6915699, rs6930045, rs9370188, rs9382180, rs9382181, rs4486010, rs2816379, rs6939730, rs2817088, rs2817090, rs2816372, rs2562895, rs2816364, rs2562893, rs2817101, rs2816362, rs2816356, rs10948744, rs12183976, rs2562898, rs735860, rs715441, rs2057024, rs1429146, rs9463895, rs2235723, rs1346603, rs9474476, rs2294867, rs9349660, rs974323, rs6909592, rs9367520, rs9395854, rs209485, rs9395856, rs7747926, rs7738788, rs209500, rs9357760, rs9370196, rs209512, rs209517, rs9370201, rs9367529, rs12209741, rs7744451, rs6904083, rs6904376, rs9367532, rs2067833, rs9382212, rs2139077, rs2397146, rs7742367, rs9474576, rs622447, rs3736729, rs13212365 and rs761141. It becomes possible to diagnose normal-tension
glaucoma based on the difference in those polymorphism sites.