Patent ID: 7531323

Claim:
A method for indicating the development of diabetes, comprising: measuring an increase in protein expression of one or more proteins in a blood, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid sample obtained from a test subject relative to protein expression in a control sample, said proteins selected from the group consisting of ELONGATION FACTOR 2 (EF-2); VACUOLAR ATP SYNTHASE SUBUNIT B, BRAIN ISOFORM (EC 3.6.1.34); LAMIN B 1 (mouse); PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE PRECURSOR (EC 6.4.1.1); MAJOR VAULT PROTElN; HEAT SHOCK 70 KD PROTEIN AGP-2 (mouse); UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE T (EC 3.1.2.15); CALNEXIN PRECURSOR; TRANSITIONAL ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM ATPASE (TER ATPASE); HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN HSP 90-BETA (HSP 84); GLYCYL-TENA SYNTHETASE (EC 6.1.1.14); 78 KD GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN PRECURSOR (GRP 78); NADPH-CYTOCHROME P450 REDUCTASE (EC 1.6.2.4); MITOCHONDRIAL STRESS-70 PROTEIN PRECURSOR (MORTALlN); TURNED ON AFTER DIVISION, 64 KD PROTEIN (TOAD-64); T-COMPLEX PROTEIN 1, GAMMA SUBUNIT (Mouse/Human); COATOMER DELTA SUBUNIT (DELTA-COAT PROTEIN); HEAT SHOCK COGNATE 71 kD PROTElN; PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE ER-60 PRECURSOR (EC 5.3.4.1) (ERP60); T-COMPLEX PROTEIN 1, EPSILON SUBUNIT (TCP-1-EPSILON) (Mouse); MITOCHONDRIAL MATRIXPROTEIN P1 PRECURSOR (GSP-60); ALPHA ENOLASE (EC 4.2.1.11); LAMIN A; TGF-beta RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 (HUMAN); GLYCERALDEHYDE 3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (EC 1.2.1.12) (GAPDH); POLYPYRIXIDINE TRACT-BINDING PROTEIN (PTB) (HNRNP I); 6-PHOSPHOFRUCTO-2 KINASE (EC 2.7.1.105); PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE (EC 2.7.2.3); ANNEXIN II (LIPOCORTIN II) (CALPACTIN I HEAVY CHAIN); GLYCERALDEHYDE 3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (EC 1.2.1.12) (GAPDH); GALECTIN-3 (GALACTOSE SPECIFIC LECTIN 3); and FRUCTOSE-BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE (EC 4.1.2.13) A (MUSCLE).