1 Cerebrospinal fluid Neurofilament Light is associated with survival in mitochondrial disease patients Kalliopi Sofou†,a, Pashtun Shahim†, b,c, Már Tuliniusa, Kaj Blennowb,c, Henrik Zetterbergb,c,d,e, Niklas Mattssonf, Niklas Darina aDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Gothenburg, The Queen Silvia’s Children Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden bInstitute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden. cClinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden dDepartment of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK eUK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK fClinical Memory Research Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden, and Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Department of Clinical Sciences, Neurology, Lund, Sweden †Equal contributors Correspondence to: Kalliopi Sofou, MD, PhD Department of Pediatrics University of Gothenburg, The Queen Silvia’s Children Hospital SE-416 85 Gothenburg, Sweden Tel: +46 (0) 31 3421000 E-mail:
[email protected] Abbreviations Ab42 Amyloid-b42 AD Alzheimer’s disease AUROC Area under the receiver operating-characteristic curve CNS Central nervous system CSF Cerebrospinal fluid DWI Diffusion weighted imaging FLAIR Fluid attenuated inversion recovery GFAp Glial fibrillary acidic protein KSS Kearns-Sayre syndrome LP Lumbar puncture ME Mitochondrial encephalopathy Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and MELAS stroke-like