Disease-specific summary statistics of significant PEA CSF biomarkers
CSF biomarker | PSP (n=54) mean (NPX) SD | CBS (n=22) mean (NPX) SD | MSA (n=38) mean (NPX) SD | PD (n=37) mean (NPX) SD | CON (n=34) mean (NPX) SD |
FGF-5 | 3.26*† 0.54 | 3.28*† 0.52 | 2.93*†§¶ 0.58 | 3.60† 0.53 | 3.52†§¶ 0.46 |
MSR1 | 2.11* 0.40 | 2.08*† 0.39 | 2.02* 0.48 | 1.95* 0.50 | 1.58†‡§¶ 0.48 |
VWC2 | 4.78* 0.49 | 4.93 0.55 | 4.55*‡ 0.54 | 5.13† 0.51 | 5.06†§ 0.51 |
VEGF-A | 9.24* 0.46 | 9.34 0.54 | 8.98*‡ 0.53 | 9.61† 0.46 | 9.48†§ 0.55 |
ADAM22 | 7.64*‡ 0.29 | 7.67 0.24 | 7.56*‡ 0.26 | 7.84†§ 0.25 | 7.78†§ 0.26 |
DNER | 10.02* 0.15 | 10.00* 0.17 | 9.96*‡ 0.16 | 10.11† 0.14 | 10.08†§¶ 0.13 |
UNC5C | 2.14* 0.51 | 2.26 0.51 | 2.09*† 0.51 | 2.43† 0.43 | 2.46†§ 0.47 |
ADAM23 | 3.00* 0.30 | 3.04 0.34 | 2.89*‡ 0.33 | 3.21† 0.26 | 3.17†§ 0.28 |
SPOCK1 | 7.15*†‡ 0.29 | 7.12† 0.37 | 6.94*‡§¶ 0.32 | 7.36†§ 0.29 | 7.23†§ 0.29 |
N2DL-2 | 4.13* 0.72 | 3.92*‡ 0.71 | 3.90*‡ 0.85 | 4.60†¶ 0.74 | 4.52†§¶ 0.86 |
FGF-19 | 4.53*† 0.55 | 4.70† 0.53 | 4.23*‡§¶ 0.59 | 4.90† 0.51 | 4.79†§ 0.54 |
Only statistically significant (p<0.05) differences are noted from logistic regression analyses.
*vs controls.
†vs MSA.
‡vs PD.
§vs PSP.
¶vs CBS.
CBS, corticobasal syndrome; CON, controls; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; MSA, multiple system atrophy; NPX, normalised protein expression value; PD, Parkinson’s disease; PEA, proximity extension assay; PSP, progressive supranuclear palsy.