Table 7.

Description of the peaks found in the different studies

		Protein 1		Protein 2	Protein 3
Li et al. (2002) [3]	kDa	4.3 ↓		8.1 ↑	8.9 ↑
	AUC	0.846		0.795	0.934
	p-value	-		-	-
Mathelin et al. (2005) [2]	M/z	4286 ↓	4302 ↓	8129 -	8919 ↑	8961 ↑
	AUC	-	-	-	-	-
	p-value#	<0.000	<0.001	0.51	<0.02	<0.001
Li et al. (2005)	Da	± 4300* ↑		8116 ↑	8926 ↑
Validation study [4]	AUC	-		0.65	0.71
	p-value	-		-	-
Current study	M/z	4276 ↓	4292 ↓	8129 -	8941 ↓
	AUC	0.716	0.770	0.510	0.830
	p-value†	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.870	<0.0001

↓ = Decreased intensity in cases compared to controls, ↑ = Increased intenstiy in cases compared to controls.

M/z = Mass to Charge ratio, * Exact mass not reported, ^# Test used not reported, ^† Mann-Whitney U Test