BIOMARKERS FOR PREDICTING WEIGHT LOSS AND WEIGHT MAINTENANCE

摘要

A method for assessing the predisposition of a subject to weight loss attainable by applyingone or more dietary interventions to a subject and/or the predisposition of a subject to maintenance of weight loss following one or more dietary interventions which method comprises determining the nucleotide of the subject at one or more polymorphic positions selected from: (i) position 101 of SEQ ID NO:1 (rs953211) (ii) position 101 of SEQ ID NO:2 (rs1509290) (iii) position 101 of SEQ ID NO:3 (rs1509289) and/or detecting one or more biomarkers genetically linked to said polymorphic positions.