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 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 Only NF-L differed between all stages within the AD continuum. 31668967 2020
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 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 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 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 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 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 Biomarker disease BEFREE First, in a subsample of A+ AD dementia and matched biomarker-negative (i.e., A- and tau tangle pathology (T)-) CU controls (n = 40), we examined ROC characteristics and identified N cut-offs using Youden's J for neurofilament light chain protein (NfL) and each of three MRI-based measures: a thickness-based AD signature from FreeSurfer, hippocampal volume (using FIRST), and a simple estimate of global atrophy (the ratio of intracranial CSF segmented volume to brain tissue volume, using SPM12). 31252287 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE While there is variability in change over time, both within and between individuals, and more work is needed to understand the sources of this variability, serum NfL remains a promising, accessible biomarker of early neurodegeneration in presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease. 30786919 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Neurofilament light chain (NfL), a marker of axonal degeneration, is robustly elevated in the blood of many neurological and neurodegenerative conditions, including AD. 30626432 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Potential Value of Plasma Amyloid-β, Total Tau, and Neurofilament Light for Identification of Early Alzheimer's Disease. 31145586 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Neurofilament light (NF-L) has emerged as a potential blood-based biomarker of neurodegeneration due to AD. 31156181 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We evaluated CSF amyloid-β (Aβ)42 and Aβ40, total (t)-tau, phosphorylated (p)-tau, total prion protein (t-PrP), and neurofilament light chain protein (NfL) in healthy controls (n = 50) and subjects with iNPH (n = 71), Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 60), and several other subtypes of dementia (n = 145). 30883350 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Plasma Neurofilament Light Chain Levels Are Associated With Cortical Hypometabolism in Alzheimer Disease Signature Regions. 31305887 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE 545 eligible non-Hispanic white participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) with longitudinal plasma NFL data were included. 31295725 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE An interaction also emerged for the Alzheimer's disease biomarker profiles (p = 0.046) where in comparison to the referent 'normal' biomarker group, individuals with abnormal levels of both Aβ42 and total tau showed stronger associations between vascular risk and neurofilament light. 31381510 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Results from recent clinical studies suggest that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers that are indicative of Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be replicated in blood, e.g. amyloid-beta peptides (Aβ<sub>42</sub> and Aβ<sub>40</sub>) and neurofilament light chain (NFL). 31779670 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Novel biomarkers (e.g., neurofilament light), new outcomes (e.g., AD Composite Score [ADCOMS]), enrollment of earlier populations, and innovative trial designs (e.g., Bayesian adaptive designs) are new features in recent clinical trials. 31334330 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was assayed for biomarkers of AD-specific pathology (phosphorylated-tau/Aβ42 ratio), axonal degeneration (neurofilament light chain protein, NFL), dendritic degeneration (neurogranin), and inflammation (chitinase-3-like protein 1, YKL-40). 28600739 2019
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 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