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ABSTRACT: Objective
There is a significant unmet need for serum biomarkers in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) that are predictive of therapeutic response to disease-modifying therapies. Following a recent Stanford study which reported that pretreatment levels of serum interleukin (IL)-17F could predict poor response to interferon-? (IFN?) therapy, we sought to validate the finding using samples from a large clinical trial.Methods
The validation cohort included 54 good responders (GR) and 64 poor responders (PR) selected from 762 subjects with RRMS from the IM IFN?-1a dose comparison study (Avonex study C94-805). Subjects were classified as GR and PR based on the number of relapses, Expanded Disability Status Scale score, and new and enlarging T2 lesions on MRI. Serum samples were assayed for IL-17F using a multiplexed Luminex assay and for IL-17F/F using an ELISA. Replicate aliquots from the Stanford study were also assayed to assure reproducibility of methods.Results
Median pretreatment and post-treatment serum IL-17F levels were not statistically significantly different between GR and PR, and serum IL-7/IL-17F ratios were also not predictive of response status. Replicate aliquots from the Stanford study showed good correlation to their original cohort (r = 0.77).Conclusions
We were unable to validate the finding that serum IL-17F is a predictor of PR in a large independent cohort of subjects with RRMS. Differences in patient populations and methodology might explain the failure to validate the results from the Stanford study.
SUBMITTER: Bushnell SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3413762 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bushnell S E SE Zhao Z Z Stebbins C C CC Cadavid D D Buko A M AM Whalley E T ET Davis J A JA Versage E M EM Richert J R JR Axtell R C RC Steinman L L Medori R R
Neurology 20120509 6
<h4>Objective</h4>There is a significant unmet need for serum biomarkers in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) that are predictive of therapeutic response to disease-modifying therapies. Following a recent Stanford study which reported that pretreatment levels of serum interleukin (IL)-17F could predict poor response to interferon-β (IFNβ) therapy, we sought to validate the finding using samples from a large clinical trial.<h4>Methods</h4>The validation cohort included 54 good respond ...[more]