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ArticleScientific reports2024

Predicting early Alzheimer's with blood biomarkers and clinical features.

Muaath Ebrahim AlMansoori, Sherlyn Jemimah, Ferial Abuhantash, Aamna AlShehhi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Muaath Ebrahim AlMansoori *Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Sherlyn Jemimah *Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Ferial Abuhantash *Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Aamna AlShehhi *Department of Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box: 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. aamna.alshehhi@ku.ac.ae.
Khalifa University of Science and Technology · AE

Funding

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research FSU-2021-005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that leads to dementia. This study employs explainable machine learning models to detect dementia cases using blood gene expression, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and clinical data from Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Analyzing 623 ADNI participants, we found that the Support Vector Machine classifier with Mutual Information (MI) feature selection, trained on all three data modalities, achieved exceptional performance (accuracy = 0.95, AUC = 0.94). When using gene expression and SNP data separately, we achieved very good performance (AUC = 0.65, AUC = 0.63, respectively). Using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP), we identified significant features, potentially serving as AD biomarkers. Notably, genetic-based biomarkers linked to axon myelination and synaptic vesicle membrane formation could aid early AD detection. In summary, this genetic-based biomarker approach, integrating machine learning and SHAP, shows promise for precise AD diagnosis, biomarker discovery, and offers novel insights for understanding and treating the disease. This approach addresses the challenges of accurate AD diagnosis, which is crucial given the complexities associated with the disease and the need for non-invasive diagnostic methods.

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Alzheimer DiseaseCognitive DysfunctionBiomarkersEarly DiagnosisHumansMachine LearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroimagingBiomarkersAlzheimer’s diseaseBlood biomarkersClinical featuresMachine learning

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PMID38472245
PMCPMC10933308
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