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Equivalence of plasma p-tau217 with cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Therriault, J; Servaes, S; Tissot, C; Rahmouni, N; Ashton, NJ; Benedet, AL; Karikari, TK; ... Rosa-Neto, P; + view all (2023) Equivalence of plasma p-tau217 with cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's and Dementia 10.1002/alz.13026. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Plasma biomarkers are promising tools for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, but comparisons with more established biomarkers are needed. METHODS: We assessed the diagnostic performance of p-tau181, p-tau217, and p-tau231 in plasma and CSF in 174 individuals evaluated by dementia specialists and assessed with amyloid-PET and tau-PET. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses assessed the performance of plasma and CSF biomarkers to identify amyloid-PET and tau-PET positivity. RESULTS: Plasma p-tau biomarkers had lower dynamic ranges and effect sizes compared to CSF p-tau. Plasma p-tau181 (AUC = 76%) and p-tau231 (AUC = 82%) assessments performed inferior to CSF p-tau181 (AUC = 87%) and p-tau231 (AUC = 95%) for amyloid-PET positivity. However, plasma p-tau217 (AUC = 91%) had diagnostic performance indistinguishable from CSF (AUC = 94%) for amyloid-PET positivity. DISCUSSION: Plasma and CSF p-tau217 had equivalent diagnostic performance for biomarker-defined AD. Our results suggest that plasma p-tau217 may help reduce the need for invasive lumbar punctures without compromising accuracy in the identification of AD. Highlights: p-tau217 in plasma performed equivalent to p-tau217 in CSF for the diagnosis of AD, suggesting the increased accessibility of plasma p-tau217 is not offset by lower accuracy. p-tau biomarkers in plasma had lower mean fold-changes between amyloid-PET negative and positive groups than p-tau biomarkers in CSF. CSF p-tau biomarkers had greater effect sizes than plasma p-tau biomarkers when differentiating between amyloid-PET positive and negative groups. Plasma p-tau181 and plasma p-tau231 performed worse than p-tau181 and p-tau231 in CSF for AD diagnosis.

Type: Article
Title: Equivalence of plasma p-tau217 with cerebrospinal fluid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/alz.13026
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13026
Language: English
Additional information: © 2023 The Authors. Alzheimer's & Dementia published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Alzheimer's Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, CSF, PET, amyloid-β, p-tau, plasma, tau
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169320
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