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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: Genet Med. 2020 Nov 26;23(4):751–757. doi: 10.1038/s41436-020-01035-3

Table 1.

CSF and serum sample characteristics and assayed methods.

Group Age (years) Sex, n (%) Assay Method
n Median Range Female Male CSF Serum
Q1 Q3 Full PEA ELISA Simoa™
CLN3 21 11.4 7.8 15.4 6.8 - 20.7 10 (48) 11 (52)
Comparators (n) 32 33 34
 Pediatric Laboratory Controls 20 12.5 7.5 15.5 3.0 – 20.0 10 (50) 10 (50)
  PLC subset 9 14.0 7.0 17.0 4.8 – 20.0 2 (22) 7 (78)
 Pediatric Healthy Siblings 10 10.8 9.4 13.3 6.3 - 18.7 4 (40) 6 (60)
 CTD 12 7.0 3.9 10.8 3.2 - 14.3 0 12
 SLOS 12 9.4 5.2 13.7 2.6 – 21.0 5 (42) 7 (58)

CSF: cerebrospinal fluid. CTD: creatine transporter deficiency. ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. PEA: proximal extension assay. PLC: pediatric laboratory controls. Q1: quartile 1, 25th percentile. Q3: quartile 3, 75th percentile. Simoa™: single molecule array. SLOS: Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.