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. 2020 Dec 29;8(2):374–384. doi: 10.1002/acn3.51280

Table 1.

Diagnostic performance of αSyn seeding aggregation assays on the BioFIND cohort using maximum fluorescence values.

RT‐QuICR

(Caughey)

PMCA

(Soto) 1

RT‐QuIC‐FG

(Green) 1

Concordant 2
Sensitivity 97.2% (92.1‐99.4) 95.2% (90.6‐98.0) 96.2% (91.4‐98.7) 98.0% (93.1‐99.8)
Specificity 87.1% (78.0‐93.4) 89.9% (83.8‐93.5) 82.3% (76.0‐85.6) 92.3% (83.0‐97.5)
PPV 90.5% (83.7‐95.2) 92.6% (88.1‐95.2) 87.8% (83.5‐90.1) 95.2% (89.2‐98.4)
NPV 96.1% (89.0‐99.2) 93.4% (87.1‐97.2) 94.2% (87.0‐98.0) 96.8% (88.8‐96.6)
AUC (ROC) 92.14% 92.56% 89.23% 95.17%

Abbreviations: AUC (ROC), area under the receiver operator characteristics analysis curve using maximum fluorescence data; NPV, negative predictive value; PPV, positive predictive value.

Ranges in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals.

1

PMCA and RT‐QuIC‐FG results were obtained from the BioFIND data repository, which were deposited from a previous study (ref 14).

2

Calculated from concordant results across all three assays which include 102 PD and 65 HC subjects.