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Title : No Evidence to Suggest that the Use of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Confounds the Results of Two Blood-Based Biomarker Studies in Alzheimer's Disease - Chiam_2015_J.Alzheimers.Dis_47_741
Author(s) : Chiam JT , Lunnon K , Voyle N , Proitsi P , Coppola G , Geschwind D , Nelson S , Johnston C , Soininen H , Kloszewska I , Mecocci P , Tsolaki M , Vellas B , Hodges A , Lovestone S , Newhouse S , Dobson RJ , Kiddle SJ , Sattlecker M
Ref : J Alzheimers Dis , 47 :741 , 2015
Abstract :

BACKGROUND: There is an urgent need to discover Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers that are both easily measured and reliable. Research into blood-based biomarkers for AD using transcriptomics and proteomics has been an attractive and promising area of research. However, to date researchers have not looked into the possibility of AD medication being a confounding factor in these studies. OBJECTIVE: This study explored whether acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs), the main class of AD medication, are a confounding factor in AD blood biomarker studies.
METHODS: The most promising blood transcriptomic and proteomic biomarkers from two recent studies were analyzed to determine if they were differentially expressed between AD subjects on AChEIs and subjects that were not.
RESULTS: None of the gene or protein biomarkers analyzed were found to be significantly altered between subjects in either group. CONCLUSION: This study found no evidence that AChEIs are a confounding factor in these published AD blood biomarker studies. Further work is needed to confirm that this is also the case for other proposed biomarkers.
PubMedSearch : Chiam_2015_J.Alzheimers.Dis_47_741
PubMedID: 26401708

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Chiam JT, Lunnon K, Voyle N, Proitsi P, Coppola G, Geschwind D, Nelson S, Johnston C, Soininen H, Kloszewska I, Mecocci P, Tsolaki M, Vellas B, Hodges A, Lovestone S, Newhouse S, Dobson RJ, Kiddle SJ, Sattlecker M (2015)
No Evidence to Suggest that the Use of Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Confounds the Results of Two Blood-Based Biomarker Studies in Alzheimer's Disease
J Alzheimers Dis 47 :741

Chiam JT, Lunnon K, Voyle N, Proitsi P, Coppola G, Geschwind D, Nelson S, Johnston C, Soininen H, Kloszewska I, Mecocci P, Tsolaki M, Vellas B, Hodges A, Lovestone S, Newhouse S, Dobson RJ, Kiddle SJ, Sattlecker M (2015)
J Alzheimers Dis 47 :741