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@ARTICLE{Mravinacov:274024,
author = {Mravinacová, Sára and Bergström, Sofia and Olofsson,
Jennie and de San José, Nerea Gómez and Anderl-Straub,
Sarah and Diehl-Schmid, Janine and Fassbender, Klaus and
Fliessbach, Klaus and Jahn, Holger and Kornhuber, Johannes
and Landwehrmeyer, Georg Bernhard and Lauer, Martin and
Levin, Johannes and Ludolph, Albert C and Prudlo, Johannes
and Schneider, Anja and Schroeter, Matthias L and Wiltfang,
Jens and Steinacker, Petra and Otto, Markus and Nilsson,
Peter and Månberg, Anna},
collaboration = {Consortium, FTLD},
title = {{A}ddressing inter individual variability in {CSF} levels
of brain derived proteins across neurodegenerative
diseases.},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {15},
number = {1},
issn = {2045-2322},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00005},
pages = {668},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Accurate diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative
diseases require reliable biomarkers. Cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) proteins are promising candidates for reflecting brain
pathology; however, their diagnostic utility may be
compromised by natural variability between individuals,
weakening their association with disease. Here, we measured
the levels of 69 pre-selected proteins in cerebrospinal
fluid using antibody-based suspension bead array technology
in a multi-disease cohort of 499 individuals with
neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease
(AD), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, primary
progressive aphasias, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
corticobasal syndrome, primary supranuclear palsy, along
with healthy controls. We identify significant
inter-individual variability in overall CSF levels of
brain-derived proteins, which could not be attributed to
specific disease associations. Using linear modelling, we
show that adjusting for median CSF levels of brain-derived
proteins increases the diagnostic accuracy of proteins
previously identified as altered in CSF in the context of
neurodegenerative disorders. We further demonstrate a
simplified approach for the adjustment using pairs of
correlated proteins with opposite alteration in the
diseases. With this approach, the proteins adjust for each
other and further increase the biomarker performance through
additive effect. When comparing the diseases, two
proteins-neurofilament medium and myelin basic
protein-showed increased levels in ALS compared to other
diseases, and neurogranin showed a specific increase in AD.
Several other proteins showed similar trends across the
studied diseases, indicating that these proteins likely
reflect shared processes related to neurodegeneration.
Overall, our findings suggest that accounting for
inter-individual variability is crucial in future studies to
improve the identification and performance of relevant
biomarkers. Importantly, we highlight the need for
multi-disease studies to identify disease-specific
biomarkers.},
keywords = {Humans / Neurodegenerative Diseases: cerebrospinal fluid /
Neurodegenerative Diseases: diagnosis / Biomarkers:
cerebrospinal fluid / Male / Female / Aged / Middle Aged /
Brain: metabolism / Brain: pathology / Alzheimer Disease:
cerebrospinal fluid / Alzheimer Disease: diagnosis /
Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins: analysis / Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis: cerebrospinal fluid / Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis: diagnosis / Affinity proteomics (Other) /
Biomarker (Other) / Cerebrospinal fluid (Other) /
Inter-individual variability (Other) / Multi-disease (Other)
/ Neurodegeneration (Other) / Biomarkers (NLM Chemicals) /
Cerebrospinal Fluid Proteins (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {Patient Studies (Bonn) / AG Wiltfang / Clinical Research
(Munich) / Clinical Study Center (Ulm) / AG Teipel / AG
Schneider},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1011101 / I:(DE-2719)1410006 /
I:(DE-2719)1111015 / I:(DE-2719)5000077 / I:(DE-2719)1510100
/ I:(DE-2719)1011305},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39753643},
pmc = {pmc:PMC11698900},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-024-83281-y},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/274024},
}