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ArticleNature communications2024

Temporal stratification of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients using disease progression patterns.

Daniela M Amaral, Diogo F Soares, Marta Gromicho, Mamede de Carvalho, Sara C Madeira, Pedro Tomás, Helena Aidos

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Daniela M AmaralLASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9210-9470
Diogo F SoaresLASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. dfsoares@ciencias.ulisboa.pt.ORCID 0000-0003-3503-0755
Marta GromichoInstituto de Medicina Molecular and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-2111-4579
Mamede de CarvalhoInstituto de Medicina Molecular and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Sara C MadeiraLASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-1459-8096
Pedro TomásINESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-8083-4432
Helena AidosLASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. haidos@ciencias.ulisboa.pt.ORCID 0000-0001-6827-4217

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EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 European Institute of Innovation and Technology (H2020 The European Institute of Innovation and Technology) 101017598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying groups of patients with similar disease progression patterns is key to understand disease heterogeneity, guide clinical decisions and improve patient care. In this paper, we propose a data-driven temporal stratification approach, ClusTric, combining triclustering and hierarchical clustering. The proposed approach enables the discovery of complex disease progression patterns not found by univariate temporal analyses. As a case study, we use Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease with a non-linear and heterogeneous disease progression. In this context, we applied ClusTric to stratify a hospital-based population (Lisbon ALS Clinic dataset) and validate it in a clinical trial population. The results unravelled four clinically relevant disease progression groups: slow progressors, moderate bulbar and spinal progressors, and fast progressors. We compared ClusTric with a state-of-the-art method, showing its effectiveness in capturing the heterogeneity of ALS disease progression in a lower number of clinically relevant progression groups.

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisDisease ProgressionAgedCluster AnalysisFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Aged

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