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Title: | Distributions of Aβ42 and Aβ42/40 in the Cerebrospinal Fluid in View of the Probability Theory | Authors: | Lewczuk, Piotr Wiltfang, Jens Kornhuber, Johannes VERHASSELT, Anneleen |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Publisher: | MDPI | Source: | Diagnostics, 11 (12) (Art N° 2372) | Abstract: | Amyloid beta 42/40 concentration quotient has been empirically shown to improve accuracy of the neurochemical diagnostics of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) compared to the A beta 42 concentration alone, but this improvement in diagnostic performance has not been backed up by a theoretical argumentation so far. In this report we show that better accuracy of A beta 42/40 compared to A beta 1-42 is granted by fundamental laws of probability. In particular, it can be shown that the dispersion of a distribution of a quotient of two random variables (A beta 42/40) is smaller than the dispersion of the random variable in the numerator (A beta 42), provided that the two variables are proportional. Further, this concept predicts and explains presence of outlying observations, i.e., AD patients with falsely negatively high A beta 42/40 ratio, and non-AD subjects with extremely low, falsely positive, A beta 42/40 ratio. | Notes: | Lewczuk, P (corresponding author), Friedrich Alexander Univ Erlangen, Dept Psychiat & Psychotherapy, Univ Klinikum Erlangen, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany.; Lewczuk, P (corresponding author), Med Univ Bialystok, Dept Neurodegenerat Diagnost, PL-15269 Bialystok, Poland.; Lewczuk, P (corresponding author), Univ Hosp Bialystok, Dept Biochem Diagnost, PL-15269 Bialystok, Poland. Piotr.Lewczuk@uk-erlangen.de; Jens.Wiltfang@med.uni-goettingen.de; Johannes.Kornhuber@uk-erlangen.de; Anneleen.Verhasselt@uhasselt.be |
Keywords: | amyloid beta;Alzheimer's disease;probability theory;distribution of a random variable | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/36586 | e-ISSN: | 2075-4418 | DOI: | 10.3390/diagnostics11122372 | ISI #: | WOS:000737027300001 | Rights: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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