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Towards a Psychosis Risk Blood Diagnostic for Persons Experiencing High-Risk Symptoms: Preliminary Results From the NAPLS Project

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Perkins, Diana O., Jeffries, Clark D., Addington, Jean, Bearden, Carrie E., Cadenhead, Kristin S., Cannon, Tyrone D., Cornblatt, Barbara A., Mathalon, Daniel H. +6 more·2015·Schizophrenia Bulletin

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INTRODUCTION: A barrier to preventative treatments for psychosis is the absence of accurate identification of persons at highest risk. A blood test that could substantially increase diagnostic accuracy would enhance development of psychosis prevention interventions. METHODS: The North American Prodrome Longitudinal Study project is a multisite endeavor that aims to better understand predictors and mechanisms for the development of psychosis. In this study, we measured expression of plasma analytes reflecting inflammation, oxidative stress, hormones, and metabolism. A "greedy algorithm" selected analytes that best distinguished persons with clinical high-risk symptoms who developed psychosis (CHR-P; n = 32) from unaffected comparison (UC) subjects (n = 35) and from those who did not develop psychosis during a 2-year follow-up (CHR-NP; n = 40). RESULTS: The classifier included 15 analytes (selected from 117), with an area under the receiver operating curve for CHR-P vs UC of 0.91 and CHR-P vs CHR-NP of 0.88. Randomly scrambled group membership followed by reconstructions of the entire classifier method yielded consistently weak classifiers, indicating that the true classifier is highly unlikely to be a chance occurrence. Such randomization methods robustly imply the assays contain consistent information distinguishing the groups which was not obscured by the data normalization method and was revealed by classifier construction. These results support the hypothesis that inflammation, oxidative stress, and dysregulation of hypothalamic-pituitary axes may be prominent in the earliest stages of psychosis. CONCLUSION: If confirmed in other groups of persons at elevated risk of psychosis, a multiplex blood assay has the potential for high clinical utility.

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Perkins, D. O., Jeffries, C. D., Addington, J., Bearden, C. E., Cadenhead, K. S., Cannon, T. D., Cornblatt, B. A., Mathalon, D. H., McGlashan, T. H., Seidman, L. J., Tsuang, M. T., Walker, E. F., Woods, S. W., & Heinssen, R.
Affiliations
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Yale University (US)
  • Zucker Hillside Hospital (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • Emory University (US)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (US)
Corresponding author
  • Perkins, Diana O.
  • Jeffries, Clark D.
Venue
Schizophrenia Bulletin
Published
2014-08-06
Volume
41
Issue
2
Pages
419-428
ISSN
  • 0586-7614 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-1701
OpenAlex
W2144107861
Cited by
238
References
60
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19.85
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Language
en
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Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH081928, U01MH066160, U01MH082022, U01MH076989, U01MH081984, U01MH0818902, U01MH081857, U01MH082004, U01MH081944, P50MH066286, U01MH081988)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Keywords
psychosis risk, clinical high risk for psychosis
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System, Inflammation, Male, Pituitary-Adrenal System, Psychotic Disorders, Oxidative Stress, Risk Assessment, Young Adult, Prodromal Symptoms

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