NEFL, neurofilament light, 4747

N. diseases: 247; N. variants: 26
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We analyzed 5 validated pathophysiological cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers (Aβ<sub>1-42</sub>, t-tau, p-tau<sub>181</sub>, NFL, YKL-40) in 113 participants (healthy controls [N = 20], subjective memory complainers [N = 36], mild cognitive impairment [N = 20], and AD dementia [N = 37], age: 66.7 ± 10.4, 70.4 ± 7.7, 71.7 ± 8.4, 76.2 ± 3.5 years [mean ± SD], respectively) using Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise, which does not require a priori determination of the number of clusters. 31585366 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) is one of the established biomarkers of AD, suggesting that it may be useful as an indicator of dementia in DS patients. 30951523 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Correlation coefficients between NFL levels and important AD indices reported by individual studies were pooled as z-scores. 31572170 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Serum NfL may thus be a feasible biomarker of early AD-related neurodegeneration. 29070659 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Cerebrospinal fluid NFL levels were quantified in nonprimarily neurodegenerative neurological and psychiatric diseases (n = 122), mild cognitive impairment (n = 48), Alzheimer's disease (n = 108), dementia with Lewy bodies/Parkinson's disease dementia (n = 53), vascular dementia (n = 46), frontotemporal dementia (n = 41), sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD, n = 132), and genetic prion diseases (n = 182). 29391125 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Subjects with APOE ε4 have higher CSF NFL levels than non-ε4 carriers, only when they do not carry a short poly-T variant of TOMM40, which is associated with later age of onset of AD, and may act as protective against the dose effect of ε4. 21983493 2012
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Plasma neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β are associated with the kynurenine pathway metabolites in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. 31601232 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE No differences in accessibility to the nuclease probe was found between AD-affected and control temporal grey matter nuclei for the human prion HuPrP gene or for the NF-L gene in nuclei isolated from the primary visual cortex or the cerebellum. 2159582 1990
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Plasma neurofilament light associates with Alzheimer's disease metabolic decline in amyloid-positive individuals. 31673598 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To investigate whether baseline concentrations of plasma total tau (t-tau) and neurofilament light (NfL) chain proteins are associated with annual percent change (APC) of the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) in cognitively intact older adults at risk for Alzheimer disease (AD). 31801830 2020
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 51 AD subjects who participated in the randomized controlled trial Preserving Cognition, Quality of Life, Physical Health and Functional Ability in Alzheimer's Disease: The Effect of Physical Exercise (ADEX) was analyzed for the concentration of neurofilament light (NFL), neurogranin (Ng), visinin-like protein-1 (VILIP-1), and chitinase-3-like protein 1 (YKL-40). 29067334 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Neurofilament light (NF-L) is a surrogate marker in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for neurodegeneration (Abu-Rumeileh et al., Alzheimers Res Ther 10: 3, 2018; Mattsson et al., JAMA Neurol 74: 557-566, 2017) but continues to be a controversial biomarker for both HAND and AD (Gisslen et al., EBioMedicine 3: 135-140, 2016; Kovacs et al., Eur J Neurol 24:1326-e77, 2017; Norgren et al., Brain Res 987: 25-31, 2003; Rolstad et al., J Alzheimers Dis 45: 873-881, 2015; Yilmaz et al., Expert Rev Mol Diagn 17: 761-770, 2017). 30610738 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To examine whether longitudinal plasma NfL levels are associated with other hallmarks of AD. 31009028 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Despite p-tau/Aβ<sub>42</sub> and Aβ<sub>42</sub>/Aβ<sub>40</sub> levels comparable to those of the AD-Dementia group, mismatches had significantly lower levels of NFL and total tau. 29959263 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We produced two monoclonal antibodies (NfL21 and NfL23) directed against the NfL core domain, and developed a novel sandwich ELISA method that we evaluated in patients with: 1) inflammatory demyelinating diseases (IDD; n = 97), including multiple sclerosis (MS; n = 59), clinically isolated syndrome (CIS; n = 32), and radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS; n = 6); 2) Alzheimer's disease (AD; n = 72), including mild cognitive impairment due to AD (MCI-AD, n = 36) and probable AD dementia (AD-dem; n = 36); 3) Parkinson's disease (PD; n = 30); and 4) other neurological noninflammatory and non-neurodegenerative diseases (OND; n = 30). 29370869 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE There was a stepwise increase in CSF NFL levels between control participants (median [range] score, 536 [398-777] pg/mL), participants with MCI (831 [526-1075] pg/mL), and those with Alzheimer disease (951 [758-1261] pg/mL), indicating that NFL levels increase with increasing cognitive impairment. 30508027 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using Western Blot and ELISA we characterized NF-L and disease-related proteins in brain, CSF and plasma samples from Tg4510 mice (tauopathy/AD), MitoPark mice (PD), and their age-matched control littermates. 28461218 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We tested whether CSF NFL levels predict hippocampal atrophy rate in cognitively healthy older adults independently of the established CSF Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers, β-amyloid 1-42, and phosphorylated tau (P-tau). 27794264 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of plasma NFL in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 1 (ADNI-1) cohort to identify novel variants associated with AD. 29747637 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These coagulation end points correlated with cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament-light levels and cognition and were more profound in younger AD patients. 29700007 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE CSF neurogranin, total tau, neurofilament light (NFL) and 14-3-3 protein were measured in neurological controls (NCs, n=64), AD (n=46) and CJD (n=81). 31097472 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease LHGDN CSF neurofilaments in frontotemporal dementia compared with early onset Alzheimer's disease and controls. 17290105 2007
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, we assessed whether NFL, Ng, T-Tau, and P-Tau levels in CSF and NFL in plasma are associated with cortical thinning and subcortical volume loss in cognitively normal, mild cognitive impairment, and AD subjects with and without Aβ pathology. 28692877 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BrdU labeling was decreased in cells expressing presenilin-1 (PS1), presenilin-2 (PS2), an Alzheimer's disease-associated missense mutation PS2(N141I), and the carboxyl-terminally deleted PS2 construct PS2(166aa), compared with mock and neurofilament-light (NF-L) transfected cells. 10393846 1999
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this review, we summarize some of the pathological mechanisms implicated in the sporadic AD and highlight the data for several established and novel fluid biomarkers (including BACE1, TREM2, YKL-40, IP-10, neurogranin, SNAP-25, synaptotagmin, α-synuclein, TDP-43, ferritin, VILIP-1, and NF-L) associated with each mechanism. 30488277 2018