Patent ID: 9500660
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: C12Q,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method of diagnosing the likelihood of a subject to resist high fat diet induced weight gain, the method comprising: obtaining a urine sample from a subject provided with a high fat diet, determining the level of isovalerylglycine in the urine sample using comparing the subject's isovalerylglycine level to a predetermined reference value, by mapping of a urinary excretion pattern of the isovalerylglycine, and providing a subject determined to be at risk for high fat diet induced weight gain with diet and lifestyle treatment options, wherein the predetermined reference value is based on an average isovalerylglycine level in urine in a control population, an increased isovalerylglycine level in the sample compared to the predetermined reference value indicates an increased likelihood to resist high fat diet induced weight gain, and the increased isovalerylglycine level is determined relative to a cut-off value of the average isovalerylglycine level in the control population.