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Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2020 Aug 14;140(5):659–674. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02211-0

Table 3.

Neuropathological characteristics of the study subjects on variables not used in uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) dimensionality reduction method by clusters, National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) data through the March 2020 data freeze (n = 495)

Variable Cluster 1 (n = 103) Cluster 2 (n = 71) Cluster 3 (n = 114) Cluster 4 (n = 207)
TDP-43 pathology, n (%)
 Amygdala
  No 13 (16.0) 7 (13.5) 8 (8.8) 14 (8.1)
  Yes 68 (84.0) 45 (86.5) 83 (91.2) 158 (91.9)
 Hippocampus
  No 8 (8.2) 5 (7.2) 15 (13.3) 48 (23.4)
  Yes 90 (91.8) 64 (92.8) 98 (86.7) 157 (76.6)
 Neocortex
  No 21 (23.3) 42 (70.0) 86 (80.4) 156 (83.9)
  Yes 69 (76.7) 18 (30.0) 21 (19.6) 30 (16.1)
NIA-AA ADNC (ABC score)
 Not AD 45 (43.7) 4 (5.6) 1 (0.9) 0 (0)
 Low ADNC 56 (54.4) 10 (14.1) 5 (4.4) 3 (1.4)
 Intermediate ADNC 2 (1.9) 31 (43.7) 12 (10.5) 15 (7.2)
 High ADNC 0 (0) 26 (36.6) 96 (84.2) 189 (91.3)
FTLD-TDP, n (%)
 No 24 (23.3) 59 (83.1) 109 (95.6) 196 (94.7)
 Yes 79 (76.7) 12 (16.9) 5 (4.4) 11 (5.3)
Hippocampal sclerosis, n (%)
 No 68 (66.7) 41 (57.7) 69 (62.2) 139 (67.8)
 Yes 34 (33.3) 30 (42.3) 42 (37.8) 66 (32.2)
Whole brain weight (g), mean ± SD 1079.6 ± 175.8 1123.2 ± 201.1 1132.5 ± 158.2 1130.5 ± 159.7
Cerebral cortex atrophy, n (%)
 None 12 (15.0) 10 (14.3) 14 (12.7) 18 (9.2)
 Mild 16 (20.0) 28 (40.0) 39 (35.5) 57 (29.2)
 Moderate 20 (25.0) 21 (30.0) 42 (38.2) 66 (33.8)
 Severe 32 (40.0) 11 (15.7) 15 (13.6) 54 (27.7)
Lobar atrophy, n (%)
 None 25 (29.4) 50 (72.5) 86 (78.2) 150 (77.3)
 Yes 60 (70.6) 19 (27.5) 24 (21.8) 44 (22.7)

SD = standard deviation; NIA-AA = National Institute on Aging - Alzheimer’s Association; ADNC = Alzheimer disease neuropathologic change; FTLD-TDP = frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology