The present invention provides a method of preparing a standard diagnostic gene transcript pattern characteristic of a disease or condition or stage thereof in a eukaryotic organism by the use of transcripts, which are differentially expressed in the disease or condition in cells from samples distant to the area of disease, as probes of sample nucleic acid, methods of diagnosis using the method and kits for performing the same.
Method of diagnosing Alzheimer' s disease on the basis of a gene transcript pattern