Towards an Earlier Detection of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
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Integration of magnetic resonance imaging and protein and metabolite CSF measurements to enable early diagnosis of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Theranostics 8(16):4477–4490 (2018). III Herman S, Arvidsson McShane S, Zhukovshy C, Khoonsari PE, Burman J, Spjuth O, Kultima K. Disease phenotype prediction in multiple sclerosis. Manuscript (2020). IV Herman S, Khoonsari PE, Spjuth O, Burman J, Kultima K. A biochemical signature of progressive multiple sclerosis. Manuscript (2020). Reprints were made with permission from the publishers. List of related papers The following papers were not included in the thesis. I Carlsson H, Abujrais S, Herman S, Khoonsari PE, Åkerfeldt T, Svenningsson A, Burman J, Kultima K. Targeted metabolomics of CSF in healthy individuals and patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis using high-resolution mass spectrometry. Metabolomics 16(2):26 (2020). II Wiberg A, Olsson–Strömberg U, Herman S, Kultima K, Burman J. Profound but transient changes in the inflammatory milieu of the blood during autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 26(1):50–57 (2020). III Peters K, Bradbury J, Bergmann S, Capuccini M, Cascante M, de Atauri P, Ebbels TMD, Foguet C, Glen R, Gonzalez-Beltran A, Günther UL, Handakas E, Hankemeier T, Haug K, Herman S, Holub P, Izzo M, Jacob D, Johnson D, Jourdan F, Kale N, Karaman I, Khalili B, Emami Khonsari P, Kultima K, Lampa S, Larsson A, Ludwig C, Moreno P, Neumann S, Novella JA, O’Donovan C, Pearce JTM, Peluso A, Piras ME, Pireddu L, Reed MAC, Rocca–Serra P, Roger P, Rosato A, Rueedi R, Ruttkies C, Sadawi N, Salek RM, Sansone SA, Selivanov V, Spjuth O, Schober D, Thévenot EA, Tomasoni M, van Rijswijk M, van Vliet M, Viant MR, Weber RJM, Zanetti G, Steinbeck C. PhenoMeNal: processing and analysis of metabolomics data in the cloud. Gigascience 8(2) (2019). IV Khoonsari PE, Moreno P, Bergmann S, Burman J, Capuccini M, Carone M, Cascante M, de Atauri P, Foguet C, Gonzalez–Beltran A, Hankemeier T, Haug K, He S, Herman S, Johnson D, Kale N, Larsson A, Neumann S, Peters K, Pireddu L, Rocca–Serra P, Roger P, Rueedi R, Ruttkies C, Sadawi N, Salek RM, Sansone SA, Schober D, Selivanov V, Thévenot EA, van Vliet M, Zanetti G, Steinbeck C, Kultima K, Spjuth O. Interoperable and scalable metabolomics data analysis with microservices. Bioinformatics 35(19):3752–3760 (2019). V Novella JA, Khoonsari PE, Herman S, Whitenack D, Capuccini M, Burman J, Kultima K, Spjuth O. Container-based bioinformatics with Pachyderm. Bioinformatics 35(5):839–846 (2019). VI Herman S, Niemelä V, Khoonsari PE, Sundblom J, Burman J, Landtblom AM, Spjuth O, Nyholm D, Kultima K. Alterations in the tyrosine and phenylalanine pathways revealed by biochemical profiling in cerebrospinal fluid of Huntington’s disease subjects. Scientific Reports 9(1):4129 (2019). VII Herman S, Khoonsari PE, Aftab O, Krishnan S, Strömbom E, Larsson R, Hammerling U, Spjuth O, Kultima K, Gustafsson M. Mass spectrometry based metabolomics for in vitro systems pharmacology: pitfalls, challenges, and computational solutions. Metabolomics 13(7):79 (2017). Contents 1 Introduction .................................................................................................. 1 1.1 The central nervous system ............................................................. 2 1.2 Neurons ............................................................................................. 2 1.3 Neurotransmitters ............................................................................. 3 1.4 Cerebrospinal fluid ........................................................................... 3 1.5 Neuroimmunology ........................................................................... 4 1.6 Multiple sclerosis ............................................................................. 5 1.7 Metabolomics ................................................................................... 6 1.8 Biomarkers and multianalyte algorithmic assays ........................... 8 2 Aims ............................................................................................................. 9 3 Methodologies ........................................................................................... 10 3.1 Mass spectrometry ......................................................................... 10 3.2 Tandem mass spectrometry ........................................................... 11 3.3 Liquid chromatography ................................................................. 12 3.4 Experimental design ....................................................................... 13 3.5 Metabolite identification ................................................................ 15 3.6 Metabolite quantification ............................................................... 16 3.7 Normalization ................................................................................. 16 3.8 Covariate correction ....................................................................... 17 3.9 Dimensionality reduction and latent variable models .................. 18 3.10 Regularization techniques .............................................................. 19 3.11 Multilevel modelling ...................................................................... 20 3.12 Achieving robust results ................................................................ 22 3.13 Model performance estimation ..................................................... 23 3.14 Conformal prediction ..................................................................... 24 4 Study summaries ........................................................................................ 26 4.1 Paper I ............................................................................................. 26 4.2 Paper II ............................................................................................ 29 4.3 Paper III .......................................................................................... 31 4.4 Paper IV .......................................................................................... 34 4.5 Principal findings ........................................................................... 37 5 Reflections .................................................................................................. 38 5.1 Experimental aspects ..................................................................... 38 5.2 Computational thoughts ................................................................. 38 5.3 Biological contemplations ............................................................. 41 5.4 Future work .................................................................................... 42 6 Concluding remarks .................................................................................. 44 7 Acknowledgements ................................................................................... 45 References ........................................................................................................ 48 Abbreviations AUC/AUROC Area under the ROC curve BER Balanced error rate CID Collision-induced dissociation CNS Central nervous system CSF Cerebrospinal fluid EDSS Expanded disability status score ESI Electrospray ionization HCD Higher collision energy dissociation HMDB the Human Metabolome Database HPLC High-performance liquid chromatography LASSO Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator LC-MS Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry m/z mass-to-charge ratio MAAA Multianalyte assay with algorithmic analyses MRI Magnetic resonance imaging MS/MS Tandem mass spectrometry OLS Ordinary least squares OPLS-DA Orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis PC Principal component PCA Principal component analysis PLS-DA Partial least squares discriminant analysis PMS Progressive multiple sclerosis PNS Peripheral nervous system PPMS Primary progressive multiple sclerosis ROC Receiver operating characteristic