Figure 3. IgG-eluted immune proteome from the synovial fluid of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and controls.
Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) of proteins eluted from the IgG purified from the synovial fluid of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and controls (data were compiled from 3 separate proteomic analyses). Quantitative data sets were generated for each protein entry in Scaffold 4 using the log of the normalized spectral abundance factor [ln(NSAF)] values [average of 3 experiments for the ln(NSAF)]. The Ward’s dual-clustering method followed by the t test was performed for comparison of 2 controls and 7 JIA patients. The HCA depicts proteins with at least a 1.5-fold difference in expression between the JIA and the control groups, with statistical significance corresponding to a FDR value < 0.7 [green corresponds to the lowest ln(NSAF), while red corresponds to the highest ln(NSAF)] (proteomic data used to compile the heat map are reported in Supplemental Table 5).
