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Table 3 The ABC testing in representative participants

From: Clinical features and biomarkers of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia with MAPT mutation

 

svPPA

N=2

Presymptomatic carriers

N=7

Noncarriers

N=9

P-value

Representative subjects

III-12

IV-22

IV-2

IV-30

Mean (SD)

IV-32

IV-33

Mean (SD)

 

Spontaneous speech/100

 Information content

0

50

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Fluency

0

89

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Repetition

81

93

84

96

96 (6)

100

98

97 (5)

0.869

 Responsive naming

50

60

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

97 (10)

0.396

Comprehension/100

 Yes/no questions

46

80

93

100

99 (3)

100

100

96 (13)

0.515

 Auditory word/picture matching

62

82

94

97

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Following directions

45

79

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

Reading/100

 Oral reading

80

80

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Auditory word and print matching

80

90

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Reading and following written directions

26

67

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

98 (5)

0.262

 Reading and filling in the blanks

13

47

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

Writing/100

 Spontaneous writing

0

100

100

100

97 (8)

100

100

97 (8)

ND

 Writing name and address

100

100

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Written naming of pictures

20

70

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Writing from dictation

37.5

58

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

 Copying

100

100

100

100

100 (0)

100

100

100 (0)

ND

  1. The mean (SD) values were derived from all 7 presymptomatic carriers and all 9 noncarriers. ND not defined because the two values coincided, ABC Aphasia Battery in Chinese