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. 2023 Sep 30;6:999. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-05384-y

Table. 1.

Demographic, serological, breathomic, and genomic parameters from rare adults.

Isoprene absent rare adults
Demographic parameters ID 1 2 3 4 5
Demography & lifestyle Age (years) 32 43 28 44 27
Gender Female Female Female Male Male
Ethnicity German German German German German
Clinical status Healthy Healthy Healthy Healthy Healthy
Special therapy/Diet No No No No No
Smoking/Drinking habit No Smoker No No Alcohol (occation)
Serological parameters
Lipids Cholesterol (mmol/L) 4.4 4.6 3.9 4.0 4.9 < 6.18 CHOD-PAP/LiHeparin
HDL (mmol/L) 1.27 1.97 1.77 1.68 1.72 1.09 - 2.28 PHOT/LiHeparin
LDL (mmol/L) 2.82 2.72 1.94 2.31 3.12 1.76 - 4.11 PHOT/LiHeparin
Lipoprotein a (g/L) 0.5 2.15 0.04 0.05 0.07 < 0.3 NEPH/LiHeparin
Triglyceride (mmol/L) 0.67 0.63 0.75 1.46 0.84 < 1.7 GPO-PAP/LiHeparin
Metabolites Total Bilirubin (μmol/L) 9.49 7.21 12.5 13.3 38.2 1.71 - 20.5 PHOT/LiHeparin
Direct Bilirubin (μmol/L) 1.35 0.93 3.11 2.45 4.74 < 5.1 PHOT/LiHeparin
Indirect Bilirubin (μmol/L) 8.14 6.28 9.39 10.9 33.5 3.4 - 12.0 /LiHeparin
Hormones 17ß-Estradiol E2 (pmol/L) 75.4 1101 504 129 18.4 Female (premenopausal): 110 - 1468.4 Female (postmenopausal): 0 - 110 Male: 36.7 - 183.6 ECLIA/Serum
Progesteron (nmol/L) 0.74 29.4 6.63 0.59 0.86 Female (pre-ovulation): 3.18 Female (mid-cycle): 15.9 - 63.6 Male: < 3.18 ECLIA/Serum
Testosteron (ng/mL) 0.22 0.37 0.44 6.03 4.44 Male: 2.5 - 9.5 Female: 0.1 - 0.9 ECLIA/Serum
Breathomic parameters
Endogenous VOCs Acetone (ppbV) 395.77 588.61 409.76 1461.06 821.53 250 - 1000 PTR-ToF-MS
Isoprene (ppbV) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100–300
Acetic acid (ppbV) 9.44 18.13 14.97 18.88 16.76 5–50
Butyric acid (ppbV) 0.96 1.54 0.90 1.86 1.40 0.1 - 5
Dimethyl sulfide (ppbV) 12.95 9.84 39.49 178.20 2.00 250 - 1000
Acetaldehyde (ppbV) 38.82 33.79 58.77 126.97 63.38 10 - 180
Crotonaldehyde (ppbV) 0.23 0.57 0.38 0.51 0.32 0.1 - 1
Pentanal (ppbV) 22.27 58.32 57.80 60.10 17.89 5 - 100
Exogenous VOCs Acetonitrile (ppbV) 4.30 123.21 5.70 8.40 3.98 Smoking related
Ethanol (ppbV) 6.93 82.28 49.30 10.04 493.40 Drinking related
Benzene (ppbV) 0.19 2.40 0.92 1.58 0.78 Enviornmental
Toluene (ppbV) 1.32 1.81 1.45 2.07 1.71 Expouser
Limonene (ppbV) 133.97 17.53 35.91 30.17 12.42 Diatery
Genomic parameters
Shared homozygous mutation with <1% population prevalence Genes Amino acids Variants Impact Variant allele frequency Heterozygous % Homozygous % Reference Whole human exome sequencing (All Exon V8, end seq. 2×150 bp and 50x average on target)
ACAT2 p.K211R c.632 A > G Missense 0.00 100.00 41.82 100.00 43.08 57.66 14.47 European population (gnomAD)
HMGCR p.T582M c.1745C>T Missense 96.23 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 16.41 0.65
HMGCR p.G580fs* c.1737_1752del CGGACAGACGGATGGA Frameshift deletion 37.08 45.00 40.98 0.00 0.00 25.21 2.72
MVK p.S52N c.155 G > A Missense 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 52.00 13.11 0.82
PMVK p.N14S c.41 A > G Missense 0.00 0.00 39.66 45.28 0.00 6.43 0.17
MVD Splicing c.70+5 G > A Splicing 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.67 0.41 0.00
IDI2 p.W144* c.431G > A Stop gain 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 6.95 0.23
FDFT1 p.H76_S77del c.226_231delCACTCC Deletion 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 93.86 38.69
LSS p.R95Q c.284 G > A Missense 44.34 0.00 46.67 0.00 0.00 15.77 1.27
LSS p.H230R c.689 A > G Missense 56.52 0.00 49.40 0.00 0.00 15.86 1.28
LSS p.L562V c.1684T>G Missense 100.00 100.00 100.00 0.00 55.70 65.39 18.62
DHCR7 p.M389T c.1166 T > C Missense 0.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 95.36 39.43

Demography (age, gender, ethnic origin, and health status), lifestyle (smoking, drinking habits and therapy and special diet), relevant serological parameters (plasma lipid profile, bile metabolites, and sex hormones) and exhaled concentrations of prime endogenous and exogenous VOCs from the five rare adults are presented. Corresponding reference range and applied methods are also listed. Aberrated parameters are marked in bold. Gene names are written in italics.