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A Genetic Variant (COMT) Coding Dopaminergic Activity Predicts Personality Traits in Healthy Elderly.

Personality and individual differences

Kotyuk E, Duchek J, Head D, Szekely A, Goate AM, Balota DA.
PMID: 25960587
Pers Individ Dif. 2015 Aug 01;82:61-66. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.012.

Association studies between the NEO five factor personality inventory and COMT rs4680 have focused on young adults and the results have been inconsistent. However, personality and cortical changes with age may put older adults in a more sensitive range...

Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease: A Unique Resource to Study CSF Biomarker Changes in Preclinical AD.

Frontiers in neurology

Schindler SE, Fagan AM.
PMID: 26175713
Front Neurol. 2015 Jun 29;6:142. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00142. eCollection 2015.

Our understanding of the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD) has been greatly influenced by investigation of rare families with autosomal dominant mutations that cause early onset AD. Mutations in the genes coding for amyloid precursor protein (APP), presenilin 1...

Diffusion tensor MRI as a biomarker in axonal and myelin damage.

Imaging in medicine

Aung WY, Mar S, Benzinger TL.
PMID: 24795779
Imaging Med. 2013 Oct 01;5(5):427-440. doi: 10.2217/iim.13.49.

Diffusion tensor imaging has been used extensively as a research tool to understand the structural changes associated with white matter pathology. Using water diffusion as the basis to construct anatomic details, diffusion tensor imaging offers the potential to identify...

Youden index and Associated Cut-points for Three Ordinal Diagnostic Groups.

Communications in statistics: Simulation and computation

Luo J, Xiong C.
PMID: 23794784
Commun Stat Simul Comput. 2013 Jan;42(6):1213-1234. doi: 10.1080/03610918.2012.661906.

Directly relating to sensitivity and specificity and providing an optimal cut-point which maximizes overall classification effectiveness for diagnosis purpose, the Youden index has been frequently utilized in biomedical diagnosis practice. Current application of the Youden index is limited to...

Optimizing parameters in clinical trials with a randomized start or withdrawal design.

Computational statistics & data analysis

Xiong C, Luo J, Gao F, Morris JC.
PMID: 24159249
Comput Stat Data Anal. 2014 Jan 01;69:101-113. doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.07.013.

Disease-modifying (DM) trials on chronic diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) require a randomized start or withdrawal design. The analysis and optimization of such trials remain poorly understood, even for the simplest scenario in which only three repeated efficacy...

Apolipoprotein E levels in cerebrospinal fluid and the effects of ABCA1 polymorphisms.

Molecular neurodegeneration

Wahrle SE, Shah AR, Fagan AM, Smemo S, Kauwe JS, Grupe A, Hinrichs A, Mayo K, Jiang H, Thal LJ, Goate AM, Holtzman DM.
PMID: 17430597
Mol Neurodegener. 2007 Apr 12;2:7. doi: 10.1186/1750-1326-2-7.

BACKGROUND: Animal studies suggest that brain apolipoprotein E (apoE) levels influence amyloid-beta (Abeta) deposition and thus risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have previously demonstrated that deletion of the ATP-binding cassette A1 transporter (ABCA1) in mice causes dramatic reductions...

DIFFEOMORPHIC SURFACE FLOWS: A NOVEL METHOD OF SURFACE EVOLUTION.

SIAM journal on applied mathematics

Zhang S, Younes L, Zweck J, Ratnanather JT.
PMID: 20016768
SIAM J Appl Math. 2008 Jan 01;68(3):806-824. doi: 10.1137/060664707.

We describe a new class of surface flows, diffeomorphic surface flows, induced by restricting diffeomorphic flows of the ambient Euclidean space to a surface. Different from classical surface PDE flows such as mean curvature flow, diffeomorphic surface flows are...

A Unified Approach of Meta-Analysis: Application to an Antecedent Biomarker Study in Alzheimer's Disease.

Journal of applied statistics

Xiong C, van Belle G, Zhu K, Miller JP, Morris JC.
PMID: 21221414
J Appl Stat. 2011 Jan 01;38(1):15-27. doi: 10.1080/02664760903008987.

This article provides a unified methodology of meta-analysis that synthesizes medical evidence by using both available individual patient data (IPD) and published summary statistics within the framework of likelihood principle. Most up-to-date scientific evidence on medicine is crucial information...

Combining Multiple Markers to Improve the Longitudinal Rate of Progression-Application to Clinical Trials on the Early Stage of Alzheimer's Disease.

Statistics in biopharmaceutical research

Xiong C, van Belle G, Chen K, Tian L, Luo J, Gao F, Yan Y, Chen L, Morris JC, Crane P.
PMID: 24363827
Stat Biopharm Res. 2013 Jan 01;5(1). doi: 10.1080/19466315.2012.756662.

Clinical trials on early stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) are reaching a bottleneck because none of the current disease markers changes appreciably early in the disease process and therefore a huge sample is required to adequately power such trials. We...

DiagTest3Grp: An R Package for Analyzing Diagnostic Tests with Three Ordinal Groups.

Journal of statistical software

Luo J, Xiong C.
PMID: 23504300
J Stat Softw. 2012 Oct;51(3):1-24. doi: 10.18637/jss.v051.i03. Epub 2012 Sep 22.

Medical researchers endeavor to identify potentially useful biomarkers to develop marker-based screening assays for disease diagnosis and prevention. Useful summary measures which properly evaluate the discriminative ability of diagnostic markers are critical for this purpose. Literature and existing software,...

Statistical Fusion of Surface Labels Provided by Multiple Raters.

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering

Bogovic JA, Landman BA, Bazin PL, Prince JL.
PMID: 21152374
Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2010 Mar 01;7623. doi: 10.1117/12.844214.

Studies of the size and morphology of anatomical structures rely on accurate and reproducible delineation of the structures, obtained either by human raters or automatic segmentation algorithms. Measures of reproducibility and variability are vital aspects of such studies and...

Models of the aging brain structure and individual decline.

Frontiers in neuroinformatics

Ziegler G, Dahnke R, Gaser C.
PMID: 22435060
Front Neuroinform. 2012 Mar 14;6:3. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2012.00003. eCollection 2012.

The aging brain's structural development constitutes a spatiotemporal process that is accessible by MR-based computational morphometry. Here we introduce basic concepts and analytical approaches to quantify age-related differences and changes in neuroanatomical images of the human brain. The presented...

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