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Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau217 performs better than p-tau181 as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease

Janelidze, Shorena LU ; Stomrud, Erik LU orcid ; Smith, Ruben LU ; Palmqvist, Sebastian LU orcid ; Mattsson, Niklas LU orcid ; Airey, David C. ; Proctor, Nicholas K. ; Chai, Xiyun ; Shcherbinin, Sergey and Sims, John R. , et al. (2020) In Nature Communications 11(1).
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) p-tau181 (tau phosphorylated at threonine 181) is an established biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), reflecting abnormal tau metabolism in the brain. Here we investigate the performance of CSF p-tau217 as a biomarker of AD in comparison to p-tau181. In the Swedish BioFINDER cohort (n = 194), p-tau217 shows stronger correlations with the tau positron emission tomography (PET) tracer [18F]flortaucipir, and more accurately identifies individuals with abnormally increased [18F]flortaucipir retention. Furthermore, longitudinal increases in p-tau217 are higher compared to p-tau181 and better correlate with [18F]flortaucipir uptake. P-tau217 correlates better than p-tau181 with CSF... (More)

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) p-tau181 (tau phosphorylated at threonine 181) is an established biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), reflecting abnormal tau metabolism in the brain. Here we investigate the performance of CSF p-tau217 as a biomarker of AD in comparison to p-tau181. In the Swedish BioFINDER cohort (n = 194), p-tau217 shows stronger correlations with the tau positron emission tomography (PET) tracer [18F]flortaucipir, and more accurately identifies individuals with abnormally increased [18F]flortaucipir retention. Furthermore, longitudinal increases in p-tau217 are higher compared to p-tau181 and better correlate with [18F]flortaucipir uptake. P-tau217 correlates better than p-tau181 with CSF and PET measures of neocortical amyloid-β burden and more accurately distinguishes AD dementia from non-AD neurodegenerative disorders. Higher correlations between p-tau217 and [18F]flortaucipir are corroborated in an independent EXPEDITION3 trial cohort (n = 32). The main results are validated using a different p-tau217 immunoassay. These findings suggest that p-tau217 might be more useful than p-tau181 in the diagnostic work up of AD.

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10.1038/s41467-020-15436-0
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  author       = {{Janelidze, Shorena and Stomrud, Erik and Smith, Ruben and Palmqvist, Sebastian and Mattsson, Niklas and Airey, David C. and Proctor, Nicholas K. and Chai, Xiyun and Shcherbinin, Sergey and Sims, John R. and Triana-Baltzer, Gallen and Theunis, Clara and Slemmon, Randy and Mercken, Marc and Kolb, Hartmuth and Dage, Jeffrey L. and Hansson, Oskar}},
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  title        = {{Cerebrospinal fluid p-tau217 performs better than p-tau181 as a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15436-0}},
  doi          = {{10.1038/s41467-020-15436-0}},
  volume       = {{11}},
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