1. Brain amyloidosis ascertainment from cognitive, imaging, and peripheral blood protein measures
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Apostolova, Liana G, Hwang, Kristy S, Avila, David, Elashoff, David, Kohannim, Omid, Teng, Edmond, Sokolow, Sophie, Jack, Clifford R, Jagust, William J, Shaw, Leslie, Trojanowski, John Q, Weiner, Michael W, Thompson, Paul M, Weiner, Michael, Aisen, Paul, Petersen, Ronald, Jagust, Wiliam, Trojanowki, JQ, Toga, Arthur W, Beckett, Laurel, Green, Robert C, Gamst, Anthony, Sakin, Andrew J, Morris, John, Potter, William Z, Montine, Tom, Donohue, Michael, Walter, Sarah, Dale, Anders, Bernstein, Matthew, Felmlee, Joel, Fox, Nick, Thompson, Paul, Schuff, Norbert, Alexander, Gene, DeCarli, Charles, Bandy, Dan, Koeppe, Robert A, Foster, Norm, Reiman, Eric M, Chen, Kewei, Mathis, Chet, Cairns, Nigel J, Taylor-Reinwald, Lisa, Shaw, Lee, Lee, Virginia M-Y, Korecka, Magdalena, Crawford, Karen, Neu, Scott, Harvey, Danielle, Kornak, John, Foroud, Tatiana M, Potkin, Steven, Shen, Li, Kachaturian, Zaven, Frank, Richard, Snyder, Peter J, Molchan, Susan, Kaye, Jeffrey, Dolen, Sara, Quinn, Joseph, Schneider, Lon, Pawluczyk, Sonia, Spann, Bryan M, Brewer, James, Vanderswag, Helen, Heidebrink, Judith L, Lord, Joanne L, Johnson, Kris, Doody, Rachelle S, Villanueva-Meyer, Javier, Chowdhury, Munir, Stern, Yaakov, Honig, Lawrence S, Bell, Karen L, Mintun, Mark A, Schneider, Stacy, Marson, Daniel, Griffith, Randall, Clark, David, Grossman, Hillel, Tang, Cheuk, Marzloff, George, deToledo-Morrell, Leyla, Shah, Raj C, Duara, Ranjan, Varon, Daniel, Robers, Peggy, Albert, Marilyn S, Kozauer, Nicholas, Zerrate, Maria, Rusinek, Henry, de Leon, Mony J, De Santi, Susan M, Doraiswamy, P Murali, Petrella, Jeffrey R, Aiello, Marilyn, Arnold, Steve, and Karlawish, Jason H
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Neurosciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Biomedical Imaging ,Aging ,Behavioral and Social Science ,Clinical Research ,Alzheimer's Disease ,Acquired Cognitive Impairment ,Brain Disorders ,Neurodegenerative ,Alzheimer's Disease including Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (AD/ADRD) ,Dementia ,4.2 Evaluation of markers and technologies ,4.1 Discovery and preclinical testing of markers and technologies ,Detection ,screening and diagnosis ,Neurological ,Aged ,Algorithms ,Alzheimer Disease ,Amyloid beta-Peptides ,Amyloidosis ,Aniline Compounds ,Biomarkers ,Brain ,Cognition ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,Cohort Studies ,Databases ,Factual ,Disease Progression ,Female ,Humans ,Male ,Neuropsychological Tests ,Pattern Recognition ,Automated ,Peptide Fragments ,Positron-Emission Tomography ,Sensitivity and Specificity ,Thiazoles ,Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ,Cognitive Sciences ,Neurology & Neurosurgery ,Clinical sciences - Abstract
BackgroundThe goal of this study was to identify a clinical biomarker signature of brain amyloidosis in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 1 (ADNI1) mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cohort.MethodsWe developed a multimodal biomarker classifier for predicting brain amyloidosis using cognitive, imaging, and peripheral blood protein ADNI1 MCI data. We used CSF β-amyloid 1-42 (Aβ42) ≤ 192 pg/mL as proxy measure for Pittsburgh compound B (PiB)-PET standard uptake value ratio ≥ 1.5. We trained our classifier in the subcohort with CSF Aβ42 but no PiB-PET data and tested its performance in the subcohort with PiB-PET but no CSF Aβ42 data. We also examined the utility of our biomarker signature for predicting disease progression from MCI to Alzheimer dementia.ResultsThe CSF training classifier selected Mini-Mental State Examination, Trails B, Auditory Verbal Learning Test delayed recall, education, APOE genotype, interleukin 6 receptor, clusterin, and ApoE protein, and achieved leave-one-out accuracy of 85% (area under the curve [AUC] = 0.8). The PiB testing classifier achieved an AUC of 0.72, and when classifier self-tuning was allowed, AUC = 0.74. The 36-month disease-progression classifier achieved AUC = 0.75 and accuracy = 71%.ConclusionsAutomated classifiers based on cognitive and peripheral blood protein variables can identify the presence of brain amyloidosis with a modest level of accuracy. Such methods could have implications for clinical trial design and enrollment in the near future.Classification of evidenceThis study provides Class II evidence that a classification algorithm based on cognitive, imaging, and peripheral blood protein measures identifies patients with brain amyloid on PiB-PET with moderate accuracy (sensitivity 68%, specificity 78%).
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- 2015