Table 2.
VNTR-DAT1 and COMTVal158Met effects on cognitive and functional variables in the TESDAD DS population.
Test | Function assessed | Polymorphism | Figure | Estimate | Standard error | t-value | p-value |
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SSP-FR (CANTAB) | Mean time to response | VNTR-DAT | Figure 1A | 537 | 270 | 1.999 | 0.05 |
SRT (CANTAB) | Mean time to respond | VNTR-DAT | Figure 1B | 117 | 48 | 2.424 | 0.018 |
MOT(CANTAB) | Mean time to respond | VNTR-DAT | 137 | 77 | 1.772 | 0.081 | |
SFWGT | Switching ability: MF | VNTR-DAT | Figure 1C | –1.5 | 0.5 | –3.265 | 0.002 |
WCFST | Reversal learning: MF | VNTR-DAT | –0.8 | 0.4 | –1.921 | 0.059 | |
SFWGT | Switching ability: MF | COMTVal158Met | Figure 2A | –1.4 | 0.5 | –2.935 | 0.005 |
ABAS-Social Skills | Adaptive social behavior | COMTVal158Met | Figure 2B | 6.99 | 2.9 | 2.453 | 0.017 |
ABAS-Self-Direction | Capacity of regulate behavior to the demands of a situation. | COMTVal158Met | Figure 2C | 7.65 | 3.7 | 2.08 | 0.041 |
DMR-SOS | Social symptoms of dementia | COMTVal158Met | Figure 2D | –2.1 | 1 | –2.108 | 0.039 |
SSP, Spatial Span; FR, Forward Recall; SRT, Simple Reaction Time; MOT, Motor Screening; SFWGT, Semantic Fluency Word Generation Task; WCFST, Weigl Color-Form Sort Test; CANTAB, Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery; DMR-SOS, Dementia Questionnaire for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (Sum of Social Scores); ABAS, Adaptive Behavior Assessment System; MF, mental flexibility; Estimate, estimated mean difference; Standard Error, standard error of the estimated mean difference; t-value, Value of the t-statistics; F, Figure; G, Graphic. Two-way ANOVA model was carried out to analyse main differences between allelic groups of each polymorphism regarding cognitive and functional outcomes.
Statistically significant associations above a significance level of 0.05 are represented as bold values.