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. 2013 Apr 5;8(4):e59498. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059498

Table 6. Descriptive statistics of all study participant serum samples tested for “10-plex” Panel (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, IFN-γ, IL-4, IL-10, IL-2, IL-5, IL-8, GM-CSF) and “4-plex” Panel (TNF-α and MCP-1).

Analyte GM-CSF IFN-γ IL-10 IL-1β IL-2 IL-4 IL-5 IL-6 IL-8 TNF-α1 MCP-1 TNF-α2
(Unit) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL) (pg/mL)
Total N Tested 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320 1320
Total N Pass QC 1226 1226 1320 1109 1226 1226 1226 1226 1320 1226 1226 1138
% below 60.44 33.77 17.05 33.27 4.32 64.68 4.08 0 0 0 3.16
% above 0.73 0 0 0 0 0.08 0 0.24 0 0.16 0 0
N 476 812 1095 740 1173 1225 433 1173 1320 1224 1226 1102
Mean(SD) 33.34(80.01) 0.746(3.34) 10.89(45.84) 1.32(2.35) 2.79(11.94) 5.73(21.39) 2.70(10.64) 4.33(20.31) 13.12(17.57) 4.16(14.83) 143.3(66.49) 1.72(0.758)
Min 1.46 0.111 0.276 0.083 0.164 0.39 0.254 0.162 0.592 0.181 1.24 0.56
25th percentile 3.46 0.223 0.598 0.37 0.44 1.26 0.454 0.515 6.51 0.935 99.34 1.27
Median 7.23 0.316 1.01 0.622 0.681 1.68 0.657 0.877 9.28 1.43 134.5 1.59
75th percentile 21.1 0.486 2.7 1.25 1.39 2.82 1.28 1.89 13.82 2.64 179.1 1.98
Max 888 86.5 633.5 28.45 241.4 360.2 129.5 379 322.6 350.3 471.6 13.14

Total N Tested; number of participant samples sent for testing, Total N pass QC; number of participant samples after removal of failed QC batches,

% above/below; percent of samples to pass QC but fall above or below the quantifiable range of the assay based on table 3.

1– TNF-α assayed as part of the 10-Plex.

2– TNF-α assayed with MCP-1.