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. 2023 Feb 28;9:30. doi: 10.1038/s41531-023-00468-2

Table 3.

Baseline demographics, clinical characteristics, mean striatal DaT SBR and BMP concentrations (adjusted for age and sex) in GBA1 N409S + PD, N409S + NMC, sPD, and HC.

1 2 3 4
N409S+ PD n = 76 N409S+ NMC n = 178 sPD n = 379 HC n = 190 P value 1 vs 2 P value 1 vs 3 P value 2 vs 4
Age (years), mean (SD)a 62.79 (10.22) 62.15 (6.71) 61.94 (9.66) 60.67 (11.16)
Age at onset (years), mean (SD) 58.52 (10.88) 59.94 (9.93) N/A 0.2945 N/A

Mean Striatal DaT SBR, mean (SD)

missing

1.28 (0.52) 2.79 (0.57) 1.39 (0.39) 2.57 (0.56) <0.0001 0.1003 0.7039
13 5 4 3

Disease duration (months), median

(range)

31.72 4.2 N/A <0.0001α N/A
(0.30, 85.23) (0.40, 35.83)
Female Sex, n (%) 33 (43.42%) 106 (59.55%) 129 (34.04%) 67 (35.26%) 0.0180 0.1189 <0.0001

MDS-UPDRS III Off, mean (SD)

missing

26.87 (11.11) 2.60 (3.90) 20.89 (8.79) 1.19 (2.15) <0.0001 0.0001 <0.0001
15 1 0 2

MoCA, median (range)

missing

27 27 28 28 0.2107α 0.0056α <0.0001α
(15.00, 30.00) (16.00, 30.00) (17.00, 30.00) (26.00, 30.00)
0 0 0 0
Total di-18:1-BMP, median (range)b 5.20 4.38 3.53 3.77
(0.70, 26.49) (0.38, 33.51) (0.21, 38.02) (0.39, 22.03)
Total di-22:6-BMP, median (range) 14.14 14.51 10.61 10.42 0.9184 0.0014 <0.0001
(3.74, 88.97) (3.16, 115.74) (1.18, 76.76) (1.25, 85.89)
2,2’-di-22:6-BMP, median (range) 9.65 9.54 6.83 6.37 0.9248 0.0001 <0.0001
(2.22, 66.35) (0.81, 87.08) (0.81, 59.27) (0.60, 65.96)

Pairwise comparisons that showed significance at p value <0.0125 (after Bonferroni correction applied due to multiple comparisons) are shown in bolded font.

PD Parkinson’s disease, NMC non-manifesting carriers, sPD sporadic PD, HC healthy control, SD standard deviation, DaT dopamine transporter, SBR specific binding ratio, MDS-UPDRS movement disorders society-unified Parkinson’s disease rating scale, MoCA Montreal cognitive assessment, BMP bis(monoacylglycerol)phosphate.

αComputed using Mann–Whitney U-test.

aThe overall F-test was non-significant thus pairwise comparisons were not computed.

bThe overall test was non-significant thus pairwise comparisons were not computed.