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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Alzheimers Dis. 2020;77(4):1743–1753. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200723

Table 2.

Correlation of age, cognitive measures and neurodegeneration in cognitively unimpaired PSEN1 mutation carriers, across all PSEN1 mutation carriers and non-carriers.

Cognitively Unimpaired Carriers
Male n = 8 Female n = 11
rs pa rs pb Z pc
CERAD Total .15 .720 .05 .894 .18 .859
CERAD Word List – Learning .27 .512 −.27 .427 .97 .331
CERAD Word List – Delayed Recall .34 .407 .16 .644 .34 .735
CERAD Word List – Recognition .50 .206 .16 .644 .68 .496
Hippocampal Volume −.23 .586 −.43 .189 .40 .692
All Carriers
Male n = 11 Female n = 19
rs pa rs pb Z pc
CERAD Total −.55 .081 −.68 .001* .49 .626
CERAD Word List – Learning −.52 .103 −.76 .000* .97 .332
CERAD Word List – Delayed Recall −.51 .107 −.66 .002* .53 .595
CERAD Word List – Recognition −.58 .060 −.62 .005* .14 .885
Hippocampal Volume −.71 .015* −.66 .002* −.22 .827
Non-Carriers
Male n = 9 Female n = 14
rs pa rs pb Z pc
CERAD Total −.01 .983 −.02 .931 .02 .984
CERAD Word List – Learning .23 .558 .23 .427 .00 1.00
CERAD Word List – Delayed Recall −.23 .553 .06 .825 −.58 .562
CERAD Word List – Recognition .00 1.00 −.38 .181 .78 .430
Hippocampal Volume −.13 .732 −.19 .507 .12 .903

Note: CERAD = Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease; Hippocampal Volume = Hippocampal Volume Ratio; rs = Spearman’s rho coefficient; Z = Z statistics.

a

p-value calculated for Spearman correlation in males.

b

p-value calculated for Spearman correlation in females.

c

p-value calculated for Fisher exact test comparing Spearman’s rho in males and females.

*

p<0.05.*. Group differences significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).