%0 Generic %A P., Talwar %A S., Grover %A J., Sinha %A P., Chandna %A R., Agarwal %A S., Kushwaha %A R., Kukreti %D 2017 %T Supplementary Material for: Multifactorial Analysis of a Biomarker Pool for Alzheimer Disease Risk in a North Indian Population %U https://karger.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Material_for_Multifactorial_Analysis_of_a_Biomarker_Pool_for_Alzheimer_Disease_Risk_in_a_North_Indian_Population/5121898 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.5121898.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8706673 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8706676 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8706679 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8706682 %K Alzheimer disease %K Apolipoprotein E %K Serum %K Plasma %K Case-control study %K Biomarker %X

Background: Alzheimer disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with a complex multifactorial etiology. Here, we aim to identify a biomarker pool comprised of genetic variants and blood biomarkers as predictor of AD risk. Methods: We performed a case-control study involving 108 cases and 159 non-demented healthy controls to examine the association of multiple biomarkers with AD risk. Results: The APOE genotyping revealed that ε4 allele frequency was significantly high (p value = 0.0001, OR = 2.66, 95% CI 1.58-4.46) in AD as compared to controls, whereas ε2 (p = 0.0430, OR = 0.29, CI 0.07-1.10) was overrepresented in controls. In biochemical assays, significant differences in levels of total copper, free copper, zinc, copper/zinc ratio, iron, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), leptin, and albumin were also observed. The AD risk score (ADRS) as a linear combination of 6 candidate markers involving age, education status, APOE ε4 allele, levels of iron, Cu/Zn ratio, and EGFR was created using stepwise linear discriminant analysis. The area under the ROC curve of the ADRS panel for predicting AD risk was significantly high (AUC = 0.84, p < 0.0001, 95% CI 0.78-0.89, sensitivity = 70.0%, specificity = 83.8%) compared to individual parameters. Conclusion: These findings support the multifactorial etiology of AD and demonstrate the ability of a panel involving 6 biomarkers to discriminate AD cases from non-demented healthy controls.

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