. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 5.

Published in final edited form as: J Proteome Res. 2013 Mar 15;12(4):1789–1796. doi: 10.1021/pr3011342

Table 1.

Frequency of autoantibodies in sera from patients with liver fibrosis

Type of diseases	No. tested	Frequency (Patients with autoantibody/ total patients with disease)
Liver fibrosis:	180	50.0% (90/180)**^a
Pre-cirrhotic stage	125	46.4% (58/125)*^a
Cirrhotic stage	55	58.1% (32/55)
Normal human sera (NHS)	30	6.7% (2/30)

P value relative to NHS: * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01