Table 8.

Potential biomarkers in tears for pterygium

Protein	Full name
KRT78	Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 78
TYMP	Thymidine phosphorylase
C4A	Complement C4-A
ANXA11	Annexin A11
KRT14	Keratin, type I cytoskeletal 14
KRT13	Keratin, type I cytoskeletal 13
YWHAE	14–3-3 protein epsilon
HIST1H4A	Histone H4
KRT5	Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 5
KRT6B	Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 6B

Biomarkers chosen after VIP-PLSDA (Variable Importance in Projection in Partial Least Scores Discriminant Analysis) multivariate analysis. Decreasing order of average importance