Blood protein assessment of leading incident diseases and mortality in UK Biobank

Biogen Bank Team, Danni Gadd, Robert F. Hillary, Zhana Kuncheva Kuncheva, Yipeng Cheng, Manju Dissanayake, Romi Admanit, Jake Gagnon, Tinchi Lin, Kyle Ferber, Heiko Runz, Christopher N Foley*, Riccardo E Marioni*, Benjamin B Sun*

*Corresponding author for this work

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The circulating proteome offers insights into the biological pathways that underlie disease. Here, we test relationships between 1,468 Olink protein levels and the incidence of 23 age-related diseases and mortality in the UK Biobank (N=47,600). We report 3,209 associations between 963 protein levels and 21 incident outcomes. Next, protein-based scores (ProteinScores) are developed using penalised Cox regression. When applied to test sets, six ProteinScores improve Area Under the Curve (AUC) estimates for the 10-year onset of incident outcomes beyond age, sex and a comprehensive set of 24 lifestyle factors, clinically-relevant biomarkers and physical measures. Furthermore, the ProteinScore for type 2 diabetes outperforms a polygenic risk score and HbA1c – a clinical marker used to monitor and diagnose type 2 diabetes. Performance of scores using metabolomic and proteomic features is also compared. These data characterise early proteomic contributions to major age-related disease, demonstrating the value of the plasma proteome for risk stratification
Original languageEnglish
JournalNature Aging
Early online date10 Jul 2024
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Jul 2024

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