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Metabolomic changes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes

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Murley, Alexander G., Jones, P. Simon, Coyle Gilchrist, Ian, Bowns, Lucy, Wiggins, Julie, Tsvetanov, Kamen A., Rowe, James B.·2020·Journal of Neurology

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Objective: Widespread metabolic changes are seen in neurodegenerative disease and could be used as biomarkers for diagnosis and disease monitoring. They may also reveal disease mechanisms that could be a target for therapy. In this study we looked for blood-based biomarkers in syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Methods: Plasma metabolomic profiles were measured from 134 patients with a syndrome associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia n = 30, non fluent variant primary progressive aphasia n = 26, progressive supranuclear palsy n = 45, corticobasal syndrome n = 33) and 32 healthy controls. Results: Forty-nine of 842 metabolites were significantly altered in frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes (after false-discovery rate correction for multiple comparisons). These were distributed across a wide range of metabolic pathways including amino acids, energy and carbohydrate, cofactor and vitamin, lipid and nucleotide pathways. The metabolomic profile supported classification between frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes and controls with high accuracy (88.1–96.6%) while classification accuracy was lower between the frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes (72.1–83.3%). One metabolic profile, comprising a range of different pathways, was consistently identified as a feature of each disease versus controls: the degree to which a patient expressed this metabolomic profile was associated with their subsequent survival (hazard ratio 0.74 [0.59–0.93], p = 0.0018). Conclusions: The metabolic changes in FTLD are promising diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. Further work is required to replicate these findings, examine longitudinal change, and test their utility in differentiating between FTLD syndromes that are pathologically distinct but phenotypically similar.

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Authors
Murley, A. G., Jones, P. S., Coyle Gilchrist, I., Bowns, L., Wiggins, J., Tsvetanov, K. A., & Rowe, J. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
  • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
Corresponding author
Murley, Alexander G.
Venue
Journal of Neurology
Published
2020-04-10
Volume
267
Issue
8
Pages
2228-2238
ISSN
  • 0012-1037 (ISSN-L)
  • 0340-5354
  • 1432-1459
OpenAlex
W3016174158
Cited by
18
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2
FWCI
1.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Journal of Neurology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • medRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Apollo (cc-by)
  • Apollo
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (103838)
  • Holt Fellowship
  • British Academy (PF160048)
  • Cambridge Centre for Parkinson plus
  • National Institute for Health Research
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
frontotemporal lobar degeneration, plasma metabolomics, blood-based biomarkers, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome, survival prediction, disease classification, neurodegeneration
MeSH terms
Humans, Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive, Syndrome, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal Dementia

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