Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid proteins as potential biomarkers for early stage Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

Marcia Cristina T. dos Santos, Dieter Scheller, Claudia Schulte, Irene R Mesa, Peter Colman, Sarah R Bujac, Rosie Bell, Caroline Berteau, Luis Tosar Perez, Ingolf Lachmann, Daniela Berg, Walter Maetzler and Andre Nogueira da Costa

PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has often been used as the source of choice for biomarker discovery with the goal to support the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases. For this study, we selected 15 CSF protein markers which were identified in previously published clinical investigations and proposed as potential biomarkers for PD diagnosis. We aimed at investigating and confirming their suitability for early stage diagnosis of the disease. The current study was performed in a two-fold confirmatory approach. Firstly, the CSF protein markers were analysed in confirmatory cohort I comprising 80 controls and 80 early clinical PD patients. Through univariate analysis we found significant changes of six potential biomarkers (α-syn, DJ-1, Aβ42, S100β, p-Tau and t-Tau). In order to increase robustness of the observations for potential patient differentiation, we developed–based on a machine learning approach—an algorithm which enabled identifying a panel of markers which would improve clinical diagnosis. Based on that model, a panel comprised of α-syn, S100β and UCHL1 were suggested as promising candidates. Secondly, we aimed at replicating our observations in an independent cohort (confirmatory cohort II) comprising 30 controls and 30 PD patients. The univariate analysis demonstrated Aβ42 as the only reproducible potential biomarker. Taking into account both technical and clinical aspects, these observations suggest that the large majority of the investigated CSF proteins currently proposed as potential biomarkers lack robustness and reproducibility in supporting diagnosis in the early clinical stages of PD.

Date: 2018
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