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ArticleAlzheimer's research & therapy2025

Plasma biomarkers identify brain ATN abnormalities in a dementia-free population-based cohort.

Menayit Tamrat Dresse, Pamela C L Ferreira, Akshay Prasadan, Jihui L Diaz, Xuemei Zeng, Bruna Bellaver, Guilherme Povala, Victor L Villemagne, M Ilyas Kamboh, Ann D Cohen and 5 more

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Article in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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15 authors.

Menayit Tamrat DresseDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Pamela C L FerreiraDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Akshay PrasadanDepartment of Statistics & Data Science, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Jihui L DiazDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Xuemei ZengDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Bruna BellaverDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Guilherme PovalaDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Victor L VillemagneDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
M Ilyas KambohAlzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Ann D CohenDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Tharick A PascoalDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Mary GanguliDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Beth E SnitzAlzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
C Elizabeth Shaaban *Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.
Thomas K Karikari *Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA. karikaritk@upmc.edu.

Funding

TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEP50AG005133 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI KAMBOH, M. ILYAS · 1985 to 2019
$43.0M
Research Education ComponentP30AG066468 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SARAH B BERMAN · 2020 to 2026
$29.4M
Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Prospective Community StudyR37AG023651 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Carmen Andreescu, MARY GANGULI · 2021 to 2026
$18.2M
Plasma brain-derived tau: a novel Alzheimer’s disease-type neurodegeneration biomarker with potential to complete the AT(N) scheme in bloodR01AG083874 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Thomas K Karikari · 2023 to 2026
$14.5M
Alzheimer neuroimaging-biomarkers in pre-clinical cognitive decline from a population-based studyR01AG052521 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SNITZ, BETH · 2016 to 2020
$3.3M
Population neuroscience of sex differences in the Alzheimer's disease biomarker cascade: The role of cerebral small vessel diseaseK01AG071849 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI C. Elizabeth Shaaban · 2022 to 2026
$629k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG071849NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066468NIA NIH HHS P50 AG005133NIA NIH HHS R01 AG052521NIA NIH HHS R01 AG083874NIA NIH HHS R37 AG023651
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionUsing the ATN framework, we evaluated the potential of plasma biomarkers to identify abnormal brain amyloid-beta (Aβ) positron emission tomography (PET), tau-PET and neurodegeneration in a socioeconomically disadvantaged population-based cohort.

methodsCommunity-dwelling dementia-free (n = 113, including 102 (91%) cognitively normal) participants underwent ATN neuroimaging and plasma biomarker assessments.

resultsPlasma Aβ42/Aβ40, p-tau181, and p-tau217 showed significant associations with Aβ-PET status, (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] of 1.74*10

conclusionOur findings highlight the potential of plasma p-tau217 as a biomarker for brain Aβ and tau pathophysiology, p-tau181 for tau abnormalities, and NfL for neurodegeneration in the community.

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Amyloid beta-PeptidesBraintau ProteinsAgedAged, 80 and overBiomarkersCohort StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPositron-Emission TomographyAmyloid beta-PeptidesBiomarkerstau ProteinsAmyloid betaATN frameworkGFAPNeurodegenerationNeurofilament light chainNeuroimagingP-tau181P-tau217P-tau231Tau pathology

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