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Investigator:

Bernadino Ghetti

Title:

Neuropathological findings of brains of persons with familial AD (FAD) due to the A431E PSEN1 mutation

Date of Request:

12/5/2011

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1102

Aim 1:

To thoroughly characterize and describe the neuropathological findings of 11 brains of persons with familial AD (FAD) due to the A431E PSEN1 mutation.

Aim 2:

To correlate pathological findings with clinical findings in these patients.

Aim 3:

To explain specific clinical and imaging features of the A431E mutation by quantifying aspects of the neuropathology.

Investigator:

Dave Holtzman

Title:

Assessment of CSF YKL-40, VILIP-1, and calbindin as diagnostic and prognostic markers

Date of Request:

12/5/2011

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1101

Aim 1:

Examine the utility of CSF VILIP-1, YKL-40, and calbindin D28K (alone or in combination with CSF tau, p-tau181, and A?42) in the identification of mutation carrier status in family members of individuals with familial AD compared to non-mutation carrier status.

Aim 2:

Investigate whether CSF levels of VILIP-1, YKL-40, and calbindin D28K (alone or in combination with CSF tau, p-tau181, and A?42) can predict symptomatic onset over the study follow-up period.

Aim 3:

Determine whether CSF levels of VILIP-1, YKL-40, and calbindin D28K correlate with other CSF and imaging markers of preclinical AD pathology such CSF tau, p-tau181, A?42, and amyloid load on PET-PIB in familial AD.

Investigator:

Prof. Ralph Martins

Title:

Investigating blood and CSF lipid biomarkers in autosomal dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease.

Date of Request:

1/28/2012

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1201

Aim 1:

Identify early modifications in plasma, CSF and platelet lipid profiles of DIAN participants which may reveal critical information about the pathobiological cascade that culminates in symptomatic disease.

Aim 2:

Demonstrate any correlation that may exist across the two major macromolecule subclasses in the blood and CSF, i.e. lipids and selected proteins (Aβ, ApoE, phospho and total tau) and also contribute to a panel of biomarkers to detect AD through a blood test.

Aim 3:

Correlate the DIAN lipid profile with brain imaging data obtained from MRI, FDG-PET and PiB-PET scans and determine whether there exists a link between biochemical alterations occurring in the periphery and brain.

Investigator:

Odity Mukherjee

Title:

Development and characterization of iPS derived cellular model for Alzheimer's Disease

Date of Request:

3/10/2012

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1202

Aim 1:

We are a group working on the molecular and functional characterization of neuropsychiatric illness using patient specific cellular models. LCl lines from the DIAN repository are fully characterized and would serve as informative control in our attempts to model disease phenotypes.

Investigator:

Marc I. Diamond

Title:

Seeding of Tau Aggregation: A Novel Plasma and CSF Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease

Date of Request:

10/13/2012

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1203

Aim 1:

1) To determine the sensitivity and specificity of our seeding assay for identifying subjects with AD.

Aim 2:

2) To determine when in the course of the disease process the seeding assay becomes positive.

Aim 3:

3) To examine how seeding activity correlates with validated biomarkers in a well-studied population.

Investigator:

Alison Goate

Title:

Defining the mechanisms of AD pathogenesis in human IPSC-derived neurons

Date of Request:

11/5/2012

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1204

Aim 1:

To measure the influence of pathogenic FAD mutations on APP and tau metabolism in human neurons

Investigator:

John M. Ringman, M.D., M.S.

Title:

Metabolic profiling of biofluids in Alzheimer's Disease

Date of Request:

11/15/2012

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1206

Aim 1:

Identify the compounds in the combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry profiles that differentiate the samples collected from patients carrying and not carrying causative FAD mutations. Further analyses will compare presymptomatic and symptomatic persons carrying FAD mutations.

Aim 2:

Identify peaks in the combined liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry profiles that differentiate samples collected from causative FAD mutation carriers and non-carriers, and presymptomatic and symptomatic FAD mutation carriers and identify the responsible compounds.

Aim 3:

Establish and apply quantitative assays to the compounds identified in Aims 1 and 2.

Aim 4:

Integrate all the compounds that are identified in Aims 1 and 2 into a biochemical overview, and rationalize these data with the extant knowledge about Alzheimer's Disease pathology.

Investigator:

Richard J. Perrin

Title:

Quantitative label-free proteomics for CSF Biomarkers in Dominantly Inherited AD

Date of Request:

2/6/2013

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1301

Aim 1:

To evaluate and map the temporal patterns of novel CSF biomarkers, measured in DIAN samples using quantitative label-free proteomics. Data will be aligned according to expected symptom onset; values from carriers (N=120) and non-carriers (N=80) will be compared (as in Bateman RJ, et al. NEJM 2012).

Aim 2:

To integrate proteomics data into the context of known AD-associated changes for this cohort (Bateman RJ, NEJM 2012), to compare novel and existing markers, and to compare this autosomal dominant dataset to a sporadic AD dataset already derived from proteomic analysis of a Knight ADRC cohort.

Investigator:

Karen H. Ashe

Title:

Specific CSF Abeta oligomers in unimpaired DIAN subjects

Date of Request:

3/26/2013

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1302

Aim 1:

Compare CSF Abeta*56 and Abeta trimer levels in unimpaired carriers and non-carriers

Aim 2:

Correlate CSF Abeta oligomers with Abeta1-42, tau and p-tau181

Aim 3:

Relate CSF Abeta*56 and Abeta trimer levels to predicted age of onset

Investigator:

Ajay Verma MD Ph.D., VP, Development Sciences Biogen Idec

Title:

Proposal to evaluate the prognostic and diagnostic potential of selected AD biomarkers using plasma and CSF samples from DIAN registry

Date of Request:

4/11/2013

Status:

ID:

DIAN-T1303

Aim 1:

Evaluate total pyroglutamate-Aβ(pE3-Aβ) in plasma and CSF and other selected amyloid Aβ isoforms in CSF as prognostic/diagnostic markers of AD in symptomatic and pre-symptomatic populations of mutation carriers and non-carriers in the DIAN registry

Aim 2:

Evaluate the CSF sTREM2 and VLP-1 markers as prognostic/diagnostic markers of AD in symptomatic and pre-symptomatic populations of mutation carriers and non-carriers in the DIAN registry

Aim 3:

Evaluate the selected modified by oxidative stress tyrosine moieties in CSF as markers linked to amyloidogenesis, inflammation, and neuronal injury

Aim 4:

Publish the findings from the above evaluations and share the results with Alzheimer’s disease research community