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Diagnosis-Independent Alzheimer Disease Biomarker Signature in Cognitively Normal Elderly People

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De Meyer, Geert·2010·Archives of Neurology

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OBJECTIVE: To identify biomarker patterns typical for Alzheimer disease (AD) in an independent, unsupervised way, without using information on the clinical diagnosis. DESIGN: Mixture modeling approach. SETTING: Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS: Cognitively normal persons, patients with AD, and individuals with mild cognitive impairment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cerebrospinal fluid-derived beta-amyloid protein 1-42, total tau protein, and phosphorylated tau(181P) protein concentrations were used as biomarkers on a clinically well-characterized data set. The outcome of the qualification analysis was validated on 2 additional data sets, 1 of which was autopsy confirmed. RESULTS: Using the US Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative data set, a cerebrospinal fluid beta-amyloid protein 1-42/phosphorylated tau(181P) biomarker mixture model identified 1 feature linked to AD, while the other matched the "healthy" status. The AD signature was found in 90%, 72%, and 36% of patients in the AD, mild cognitive impairment, and cognitively normal groups, respectively. The cognitively normal group with the AD signature was enriched in apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele carriers. Results were validated on 2 other data sets. In 1 study consisting of 68 autopsy-confirmed AD cases, 64 of 68 patients (94% sensitivity) were correctly classified with the AD feature. In another data set with patients (n = 57) with mild cognitive impairment followed up for 5 years, the model showed a sensitivity of 100% in patients progressing to AD. CONCLUSIONS: The mixture modeling approach, totally independent of clinical AD diagnosis, correctly classified patients with AD. The unexpected presence of the AD signature in more than one-third of cognitively normal subjects suggests that AD pathology is active and detectable earlier than has heretofore been envisioned.

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Authors
De Meyer, G.
Venue
Archives of Neurology
Published
2010-08-01
Volume
67
Issue
8
Pages
949
ISSN
0003-9942 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2141854336
Cited by
462
References
24
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FWCI
42.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Archives of Neurology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
  • VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5u01ag024904-10)
  • National Institute on Aging (U01-AG-024904, P30AG010124, U19AG010483)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease, biomarker signatures, cerebrospinal fluid, amyloid-beta 42, phosphorylated tau, total tau, mixture models, cognitively normal elderly, mild cognitive impairment, APOE ε4, unsupervised classification
MeSH terms
Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Cognition, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Peptide Fragments, ROC Curve, Reproducibility of Results, Biomarkers, Geriatric Assessment, Amyloid beta-Peptides, tau Proteins, Apolipoprotein E4

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