Patent ID: 7575876

Claim:
A method of aiding in a differential diagnosis between Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and dementia with Lewy body disease (DLB) in a subject having clinical presentations of neurodegenerative diseases, said method comprising: detecting a pattern of gene product expression for at least five gene products listed in FIGS. 5 A- 5 YY in a cerebrospinal fluid sample from the subject; and comparing the detected pattern of gene product expression from the cerebrospinal fluid sample to a library of gene product expression patterns known to provide a differential diagnosis between AD, PD and DLB as represented in FIGS. 5 A- 5 YY, wherein when the detected pattern corresponds to a pattern as represented in FIGS. 5 A- 5 YY a differential diagnosis between AD, PD, and DLB is made.