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. 2024 Mar 23;15:2615. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46876-7

Table 2.

Comparison of the estimated mean fold changes of different p-tau variants between different stages of Amyloid pathology in the post-mortem cohorts

BLSA-Neuropathology cohort: amyloid pathology
Test - Plasma Sparse versus Moderate Sparse versus Frequent Moderate versus Frequent
Result/analyte Fold change P-value Fold change P-value Fold change P-value
p-tau181 1.39 0.6703 1.69 0.2107 1.22 0.7231
p-tau231 1.00 0.9999 1.70 0.0304 1.70 0.0271
p-tau212 1.55 0.6339 2.70 0.0081 1.74 0.0867
UCSD-Neuropathology cohort: CERAD amyloid pathology
–Test - CSF Sparse versus Moderate Sparse versus Frequent Moderate versus Frequent
Result/analyte Fold change P-value Fold change P-value Fold change P-value
p-tau181 3.46 0.0114 4.21 0.0002 1.21 0.5582
p-tau231 3.73 0.0122 4.57 0.0003 1.23 0.5536
p-tau212 6.06 0.0083 8.72 <0.0001 1.43 0.1589
p-tau217 3.96 0.0034 5.27 <0.0001 1.33 0.2053
UCSD-Neuropathology cohort: Thal amyloid pathology
–Test - CSF Thal 0-2 versus Thal 3-4 Thal 0-2 versus Thal 5 Thal 3-4 versus Thal 5
Result/ analyte Fold change P-value Fold change P-value Fold change P-value
p-tau181 2.87 0.0799 3.47 0.0031 1.21 0.6684
p-tau231 3.04 0.0781 3.62 0.0039 1.19 0.7355
p-tau212 4.02 0.0921 5,73 0.0006 1.43 0.3162
p-tau217 3.38 0.0403 4.55 0.0002 1.35 0.2930