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. 2021 Jan 26;22(3):1189. doi: 10.3390/ijms22031189

Table 5.

Diagnostic performance of 14 biomarkers overlapping between LC/MRM-MS and IpA measurements for detecting CRC cases from participants in screening colonoscopy.

Marker Pearson’s
Correlation
Coefficient
LC/MRM-MS Measurements IpA Measurements DeLong
p-value for AUC Testing
AUC
(95% CI)
p-value p-value adj Se % at
80% Sp
Se % at
90% Sp
AUC
(95% CI)
p-value p-value adj Se % at
80% Sp
Se % at
90% Sp
A1BG 0.04 0.66
(0.51–0.80)
<0.05 * 0.15 45 34 0.53
(0.38–0.69)
0.69 0.80 17 10 0.26
A2HS 0.03 0.63
(0.48–0.78)
0.10 0.28 45 38 0.54
(0.38–0.69)
0.63 0.80 17 3 0.41
C4BPA −0.05 0.69
(0.55–0.83)
<0.01 ** <0.05 * 48 45 0.55
(0.40–0.71)
0.50 0.80 24 14 <0.05 *
C6 −0.13 0.66
(0.51–0.80)
<0.05 * 0.15 41 28 0.57
(0.42–0.73)
0.34 0.80 15 7 0.44
CA1 0.45 0.57
(0.42–0.72)
0.37 0.58 24 17 0.57
(0.42–0.73)
0.34 0.80 15 6 0.97
CD5 0.00 0.57
(0.41–0.73)
0.36 0.58 48 21 0.57
(0.42–0.72)
0.36 0.80 15 7 0.99
HSPA5 0.08 0.57
(0.42–0.73)
0.80 0.94 24 17 0.52
(0.37–0.67)
0.35 0.80 15 7 0.62
IGHG1 −0.21 0.55
(0.40–0.70)
0.78 0.94 31 10 0.52
(0.37–0.67)
0.55 0.80 13 5 0.82
PLS2 −0.03 0.54
(0.39–0.69)
0.58 0.81 24 7 0.57
(0.41–0.72)
0.40 0.80 15 7 0.84
S100A9 −0.02 0.57
(0.42–0.72)
0.33 0.58 34 28 0.51
(0.36–0.66)
0.88 0.94 12 6 0.57
SAP −0.03 0.72
(0.58–0.85)
<0.01 ** <0.05 * 55 34 0.50
(0.35–0.66)
0.96 0.96 12 5 <0.05 *
SERPINF2 −0.06 0.51
(0.36–0.66)
0.90 0.94 28 17 0.55
(0.39–0.70)
0.56 0.80 21 14 0.75
SPARC 0.00 0.62
(0.47–0.77)
0.13 0.30 41 17 0.54
(0.39–0.69)
0.63 0.80 17 8 0.47
TR −0.08 0.51
(0.35–0.66)
0.94 0.94 24 21 0.59
(0.45–0.74)
0.21 0.80 15 7 0.41

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the receiver operating curve; CRC, colorectal cancer; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; IpA, immunome protein array; LC/MRM-MS, liquid chromatography/multiple reaction monitoring–mass spectrometry; p-value, apparent p-values without any adjustments; p-value adj, p-value after adjustment for multiple testing by the Benjamini–Hochberg method; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity. Protein abbreviations: A1BG, alpha-1B-glycoprotein; A2HS, alpha-2-HS-glycoprotein; C4BPA, C4b-binding protein alpha chain; C6, complement component C6; CA1, carbonic anhydrase 1; CD5, CD5 antigen; HSPA5, 78 kDa glucose-regulated protein; IGHG1, immunoglobulin gamma-1 chain C region; PLS2, plastin-2; S100A9, protein S100-A9; SAP, serum amyloid P-component; SERPINF2, alpha-2-antiplasmin; SPARC, secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine; TR, transferrin receptor protein 1. Note: *, Significant at a p-value of < 0.05; **, significant at a p-value of < 0.01.