Patent Document ID: 20070298998
Application ID: 11711518
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of diagnosing whether a subject has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), comprising: analyzing a biological sample from a subject to determine the level(s) of one or more biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the sample, wherein the one or more biomarkers are selected from (a) one or more biomarkers listed in Tables 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, (b) one or more xenobiotics, (c) one or more metabolites of xenobiotics, and (d) combinations thereof; and comparing the level(s) of the one or more biomarkers in the sample to ALS-positive and/or ALS-negative reference levels of the one or more biomarkers in order to diagnose whether the subject has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.