Table 3.
Urine Cr-normalized biomarker levels in a primary validation cohort.
| Urine protein | Fold-changea | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active/inactive | SLE/healthy | Comparison of active LN vs inactive SLE | ||||||
| Cut-off | ROC AUC | Sensitivity | Specificity | NPV | PPV | |||
| ALCAM | 3.0*** | 40.7**** | 4875 | 0.74*** | 0.52 | 0.92 | 0.78 | 0.77 | 
| BFL-1 | 3.3*** | 4.3 | 11 | 0.74**** | 0.70 | 0.81 | 0.68 | 0.83 | 
| Calpastatin | 63** | 51.0* | 325 | 0.74**** | 0.52 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.78 | 
| FcγRIIBC | 3.2* | 2.7 | 367 | 0.69** | 0.59 | 0.79 | 0.62 | 0.77 | 
| Hemopexin | 1.5*** | 2.8 | 327459 | 0.76**** | 0.96 | 0.57 | 0.57 | 0.96 | 
| MCP-1 | 2.9** | 4.4** | 203 | 0.71*** | 0.78 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.83 | 
| Peroxiredoxin-6 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 1 | 0.58 | 0.30 | 0.87 | 0.57 | 0.68 | 
| PF-4 | 8.9**** | 84.7** | 39 | 0.81**** | 0.78 | 0.83 | 0.72 | 0.87 | 
| Properdin | 6.2** | 6.2 | 2062 | 0.79**** | 0.74 | 0.89 | 0.80 | 0.86 | 
| sE-Selectin | 2.6** | 22.2* | 3 | 0.73**** | 0.82 | 0.66 | 0.58 | 0.86 | 
| TFPI | 1.9 | 6.3**** | 146 | 0.65* | 0.63 | 0.75 | 0.59 | 0.78 | 
| VCAM-1 | 2.5**** | 0.2 | 10324 | 0.85**** | 0.82 | 0.79 | 0.69 | 0.88 | 
| C3 | 0.9 | N/A | 146 | 0.39 | 0.19 | 0.92 | 0.56 | 0.66 | 
| C4 | 1 | N/A | 30 | 0.49 | 0.33 | 0.81 | 0.50 | 0.68 | 
| Anti-DNA | 3.7 | N/A | 40 | 0.66** | 0.52 | 0.81 | 0.61 | 0.75 | 
The primary validation cohort of 95 subjects comprise 47 inactive SLE patients,
27 active LN patients, and 21 healthy controls.
Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
ap-values by Mann–Whitney U-test (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ****p < 0.0001).