A soluble truncated tau species related to cognitive dysfunction and caspase-2 is elevated in the brain of Huntington’s disease patients

Table 4 Comparison of demographic characteristics of HD patients and non-HD individuals from the NIH NeuroBioBank used in the study of proteins in caudate nucleus

	non-HD	HD	p value
Sample size, N	12	11
Age at death [yr]:
median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile)	74.0 (68.0, 80.5)	65.0 (58.0, 73.0)	0.04^a
range	60.0–89.0	50.0–77.0	0.04^a
Sex, female/male, No. (% female)	7/5 (58.3%)	7/4 (63.6%)	> 0.99^b
Post-mortem interval [hr]:
median (1st quartile, 3rd quartile)	13.8 (11.1, 18.6)	12.0 (9.2, 15.7)	0.44^a
range	9.0–20.5	8.6–21.7	0.44^a

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