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. 2022 Jan 19;14:10. doi: 10.1186/s13195-022-00958-0

Table 2.

Regression coefficients and corresponding weights

C9orf72 GRN MAPT
Coef. Weight Coef. Weight Coef. Weight
Language
Camel and Cactus Test − 0.004 0.003 − 0.04 0.04
Boston Naming Test − 0.39 0.40
Category fluency − 0.13 0.09
Attention and mental processing speed
Digit span forward
Trail Making Test – part A
Digit symbol
D-KEFS CWIT – colour naming − 0.06 0.04 − 0.09 0.09
D-KEFS CWIT – word naming − 0.04 0.03 0.09a
Executive function
Digit span backward
Trail Making Test – part B − 0.07 0.05 − 0.28 0.23
D-KEFS CWIT – ink naming − 0.29 0.20 − 0.24 0.20
Phonemic fluency 0.24a
Visuoconstruction
Benson figure copy − 0.09 0.06
Memory
Benson figure recall − 0.06 0.05 − 0.01 0.01
FCSRT free recall − 0.50 0.35 − 0.06 0.06
FCSRT total recall − 0.05 0.04 − 0.30 0.31
FCSRT delayed free recall − 0.16 0.13 − 0.01 0.01
FCSRT delayed total recall
Social cognition
Facial Emotion Recognition Test − 0.26 0.18 − 0.42 0.35 − 0.08 0.08

Data are presented as coefficients and weights. Coefficient gives the change in log odds of being a mutation carrier for each Z-score increase in the score on the cognitive test. Weight gives the weighting used when calculating the weighted cognitive composite score

Abbreviations: C9orf72 chromosome 9 open reading frame 72, GRN progranulin, MAPT microtubule-associated protein tau, D-KEFS CWIT Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System Colour-Word Interference Test, FCSRT Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test

aPositive coefficients indicate better performance in mutation carriers compared to controls and were not included in the composite score