High cerebrospinal fluid tau and low amyloid β42 levels in the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease and relation to apolipoprotein E genotype

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Galasko, D
Chang, L
Motter, R
Clark, CM
Kaye, J
Knopman, D
Thomas, R
Kholodenko, D
Schenk, D
Lieberburg, I
Miller, B
Green, R
Basherad, R
Kertiles, L
Boss, MA
Seubert, P
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[1] Athena Neurosci Inc, San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Neurosci, San Diego, CA 92103 USA
[3] Vet Affairs Med Ctr, San Diego, CA 92161 USA
[4] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Harbor Med Ctr, Dept Neurol, Torrance, CA 90509 USA
[5] Univ Penn, Dept Neurol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[6] Oregon Hlth & Sci Univ, Aging & Alzheimers Dis Ctr, Portland, OR 97201 USA
[7] Univ Minnesota Hosp & Clin, Dept Neurol, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[8] Georgia State Univ, Coll Hlth & Human Sci, Memory Assessment Clin, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[9] Georgia State Univ, Coll Hlth & Human Sci, Alzheimers Dis Program, Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
[10] Athena Diagnost Inc, Worcester, MA USA
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10.1001/archneur.55.7.937
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Objective: To evaluate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of amyloid beta protein ending at amino acid 42 (A beta 42) and tau as markers for Alzheimer disease (AD) and to determine whether clinical variables influence these levels. Design: Cohort study. Setting: Six academic research centers with expertise in dementia. Subjects: Eighty-two patients with probable AD, including 24 with very mild dementia (Mini-Mental State Examination score >23/30) (AD group); 60 cognitively normal elderly control subjects (NC group); and 74 subjects with neurological disorders, including dementia (ND group). Main Outcome Measures: Levels of A beta 42 and tau were compared among AD, NC, and ND groups. Relationships of age, sex, Mini-Mental State Examination score, and apolipoprotein E (Apo E) genotype with these levels were examined using multiple linear regression. Classification tree models were developed to optimize distinguishing AD from NC groups. Results: Levels of A beta 42 were significantly lower, and levels of tau were significantly higher, in the AD group than in the NC or ND group. In the AD group, A beta 42 level was inversely associated with Apo E epsilon 4 allele dose and weakly related to Mini-Mental State Examination score; tau level was associated with male sex and 1 Apo E epsilon 4 allele. Classification tree analysis, comparing the AD and NC subjects, was 90% sensitive and 80% specific. With specificity set at greater than 90%, the tree was 77% sensitive for AD. This tree classified 26 of 74 members of the ND group as having AD. They had diagnoses difficult to distinguish from AD clinically and a high Apo E epsilon 4 allele frequency. Markers in CSF were used to correctly classify 12 of 13 patients who later underwent autopsy, including 1 with AD not diagnosed clinically. Conclusions: Levels of CSF A beta 42 decrease and levels of CSF tau increase in AD. Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 had a dose-dependent relationship with CSF levels of A beta 42, but not tau. Other covariates influenced CSF markers minimally. Combined analysis of CSF A beta 42 and tau levels discriminated patients with AD, including patients with mild dementia, from the NC group, supporting use of these proteins to identify AD and to distinguish early AD from aging. In subjects in the ND group with an AD CSF profile, autopsy follow-up will be required to decide whether CSF results are false positive, or whether AD is a primary or concomitant cause of dementia.
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