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medrxiv2026-09-03biomarkersneurobiology

A calpain-cut GFAP neoepitope beats total GFAP for Veteran MCI and Alzheimer triage

Across a Veteran TBI-MCI-Alzheimer continuum, a calpain-cleaved GFAP neoepitope (neoGFAP) outperforms total GFAP for separating MCI plus Alzheimer from non-Alzheimer subjects, especially after a plasma p-tau217 and amyloid-beta-42 gate. This is astroglial injury, not a mitochondrial paper.

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biomarkers · neurobiology

Score 46/100MEDRXIVmedium confidencebiomarkers
46
Importance
50
Mito signal
39
Dysfunction
93
Evidence
15
Translational

Editorial signal profile from the abstract (importance score, mito keywords, dysfunction tags, evidence density, translational cues). Not a figure reproduced from the preprint PDF.

Finding. Haskins and colleagues compare a calpain-cleaved GFAP neoepitope with total GFAP in Veterans from traumatic brain injury through mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer disease. After a plasma p-tau217 and amyloid-beta-42 gate, the neoepitope is the better CSF discriminator in the amyloid-committed subset.

Why the score is low here There is no mitochondrial measurement. The brief exists because the DOI was in the writer queue. Do not cite it for OXPHOS or mtDNA.

Score 46. Biomarker methods. Skip for organelle biology.

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Source preprint

Proteoform-resolved neoGFAP ™ as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker across the TBI–MCI–AD continuum in Veterans

10.64898/2026.09.01.26361845

Haskins WE, Wang KK, Cai G, Boukholda K, Elbayoumi E, Bajpai R, Jackson D, Tehas K, Radeker K, DeLizza A, Popper C, Kiendl M, Badrnya S, Miholits M, Jellbauer S, Kilbaugh T, Okumu F, Puccio A, Gardner RC, Manley G, Williamson JB, Waters AB, Li GG, Peskind ER.

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