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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2021

Ranking the Predictive Power of Clinical and Biological Features Associated With Disease Progression in Huntington's Disease.

Naghmeh Ghazaleh, Richard Houghton, Giuseppe Palermo, Scott A Schobel, Peter A Wijeratne, Jeffrey D Long

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Antidopaminergic Medications and Clinical Changes in Measures of Huntington's Disease: A Causal Analysis.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Naghmeh GhazalehF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Richard HoughtonF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Giuseppe PalermoF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Scott A SchobelF. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Peter A WijeratneDepartment of Computer Science, Centre for Medical Imaging Computing, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Jeffrey D LongDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Roche (Switzerland) · CHUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Iowa · US

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/T027770/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is characterised by a triad of cognitive, behavioural, and motor symptoms which lead to functional decline and loss of independence. With potential disease-modifying therapies in development, there is interest in accurately measuring HD progression and characterising prognostic variables to improve efficiency of clinical trials. Using the large, prospective Enroll-HD cohort, we investigated the relative contribution and ranking of potential prognostic variables in patients with manifest HD. A random forest regression model was trained to predict change of clinical outcomes based on the variables, which were ranked based on their contribution to the prediction. The highest-ranked variables included novel predictors of progression-being accompanied at clinical visit, cognitive impairment, age at diagnosis and tetrabenazine or antipsychotics use-in addition to established predictors, cytosine adenine guanine (CAG) repeat length and CAG-age product. The novel prognostic variables improved the ability of the model to predict clinical outcomes and may be candidates for statistical control in HD clinical studies.

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disease progressionHuntington's diseasemachine learningprognostic variablesrandom forest

Identifiers

PMID34093422
PMCPMC8176643
OpenAlexW3165784257

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