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. 2021 Jan 14;11:50. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-01175-9

Table 2.

P values for associations of modules to clinical and pathologic traits.

Module Activated microglia Pathologic AD Clinical AD Cognitive decline Neuritic plaques Diffuse plaques Neurofi-brillary tangles Tau Βeta-amyloid Sex Age
M116 0.042 (2.7) 0.16 (0.048) 0.15 (0.049) 0.2 (−0.0094) 0.091 (0.056) 0.61 (0.017) 0.68 (−0.0096) 0.58 (0.048) 0.016 (0.18) 0.013 (−0.082) 0.0049 (1.3)
M115 0.041 (3.1) 0.47 (0.025) 0.16 (0.047) 0.094 (−0.012) 0.099 (0.055) 0.66 (0.015) 0.77 (−0.0068) 0.87 (0.014) 0.022 (0.18) 0.0044 (−0.094) 0.4 (0.39)
M114 0.02 (2.8) 0.0069 (0.11) 0.0045 (0.11) 0.0035 (−0.025) 0.00031 (0.14) 0.055 (0.076) 0.24 (0.033) 0.024 (0.23) 0.00015 (0.34) 0.00016 (−0.15) 0.5 (0.37)
M113 0.63 (0.64) 0.43 (0.028) 0.026 (0.077) 0.085 (−0.013) 0.1 (0.056) 0.28 (-0.037) 0.75 (0.0075) 0.87 (−0.014) 0.0043 (0.22) 0.13 (−0.052) 0.11 (0.75)
M5 0.00042 (4) 0.005 (0.12) 0.068 (0.077) 0.014 (−0.022) 0.0019 (0.13) 0.00036 (0.15) 0.43 (0.023) 0.0028 (0.33) 0.0064 (0.26) 0.00015 (−0.16) 0.42 (0.46)

Linear regression analysis was used to associate average module expression to neuropathologic variables and cognitive decline for all 540 ROSMAP subjects. Reported are the P values with effect sizes in brackets. All the associations were adjusted for age, sex, study (ROS or MAP), RIN, and postmortem interval (PMI). The tests with P values <0.016 were significant after a Benjamini–Hochberg correction for multiple hypothesis testing and are highlighted in bold. Only 105 subjects have activated microglia counts.