NRCAM and Alzheimer disease: In addition, within AD patients (baseline) these three tightly correlated peptides did not correlate with levels of CSF total protein (n = 32) or Aβ42 (n = 21) (Additional file 1: Table S2), however they did correlate with tau (n = 21)(CMGA R = 0.69, NPTXR R = 0.71, NrCAM R = 0.74) (Additional file 1: Table S2).