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Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem. 2024 Jun 3;70(6):865–877. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvae043

Table 2.

Age-specific reference ranges for the key diagnostic biomarkers in µmol/mol creatinine.

Apparent concentration, µmol/mol creatinine
<2 months 2 months to 1 year 1 to 3 years > 4 years
UA-HexNAc-1S, #1 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0
UA-HexNAc-1S, #2 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0
UA-HexN-UA-2S 0.0 - 9.7 0.0 - 13.3 0.0 - 8.2 0.0 - 8.0
HexN-UA-1S 0.0 - 49.7 0.0 - 49.7 0.0 - 41.0 0.0 - 24.6
HexN-UA-HexNAc-UA-2S 0.0 - 16.3 0.0 - 19.2 0.0 - 18.8 0.0 - 10.5
HexNAc-UA-HexNAc-1S 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0
(HexNAc-UA)2 0.0 - 28.5 0.0 - 18.0 0.0 - 11.4 0.0 - 5.0
HexN-UA-HexNAc-1S, #2 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0
(HexN-UA)2-HexNAc-2S 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0 0.0 - 8.0
HexNAc-UA-1S, #2 0.0 - 52.8 0.0 - 42.9 0.0 - 34.2 0.0 - 10.0
HexNAc-UA-HexNAc-2S 32.8 - 483.5 43.6 - 251.5 19.8 - 159.6 0.0 - 87.8
UA-HexNAc 1470.0 - 9883.4 714.7 - 4600.7 355.1 - 2900.2 312.5 - 2144.3
HexNAc-UA-HexNAc 147.6 - 981.2 66.0 - 430.7 35.2 - 238.1 25.0 - 186.9
Hex3-HexNAc2 0.0 - 78.5 0.0 - 32.7 0.0 - 25.7 0.0 - 17.5
Hex5-HexNAc3 0.0 - 79.6 0.0 - 20.9 0.0 - 18.9 0.0 - 15.0
Hex2-HexNAc3 0.0 - 12.0 0.0 - 7.3 0.0 - 5.3 0.0 - 4.0
Hex3-HexNAc4 0.0 - 4.0 0.0 - 4.0 0.0 - 4.0 0.0 - 4.0
Hex-HexNAc 4674.7 - 24048.9 1612.4 - 18383.1 1474.9 - 10425.1 1124.5 - 5870.9
Hex3-HexNAc 99.2 - 462.1 94.4 - 449.7 53.4 - 325.6 35.0 - 204.6
Hex4-HexNAc 0.0 - 103.1 0.0 - 69.9 0.0 - 62.4 0.0 - 30.9
Fuc-HexNAc 244.5 - 1184.7 206.5 - 1217.4 124.9 - 768.5 55.9 - 467.4
Neu5Ac-Hex3-HexNAc2 0.0 - 34.3 0.0 - 30.1 0.0 - 22.6 0.0 - 20.2
Neu5Ac2-Hex5-HexNAc3 0.0 - 217.6 0.0 - 60.1 0.0 - 48.6 0.0 - 38.5
Hex4 0.0 - 19058.9 0.0 - 15977.0 0.0 - 9748.6 0.0 - 3132.1
Hex3 0.0 - 58454.4 0.0 - 59415.3 0.0 - 15621.0 0.0 - 4936.0
GlcNAc-Asn 0.0 - 10156.1 0.0 - 11192.9 0.0 - 11624.3 0.0 - 3649.5
GalNAc-Thr 0.0 - 2882.4 0.0 - 1903.3 0.0 - 771.6 0.0 - 297.1
GlcNAc-6S 0.0 - 6430.5 0.0 - 10318.7 0.0 - 3850.6 0.0 - 1773.0
GalNAc-6S 0.0 - 12025.3 0.0 - 4825.5 0.0 - 3666.9 0.0 - 2115.9
GalNAc-4S 0.0 - 64997.7 0.0 - 18435.7 0.0 - 15188.3 0.0 - 9952.0
GalNAc-6S/GalNAc-4S 0.22 - 0.64 0.18 - 0.43 0.16 - 0.34 0.13 - 0.29
Hex4/Hex3 0.00 - 1.71 0.00 - 2.41 0.00 - 3.19 0.00 - 2.90