Figure 2.

The distribution of anti-phospholipase A2 receptor antibody (anti-PLA2R) levels (log-transformed) in different nephropathies. In the idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN), the upper and lower short line show the 75th and 25th percentiles respectively and the middle long line shows the median. In the minimal change disease (MCD), diabetic nephropathy (DN), and lupus nephritis (LN), the upper short lines show 75 percentiles and the median (long) lines and 25 percentiles (short) lines coincide with each other. In the IgA nephropathy (IgAN), focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), hepatitis B virus-associated glomerulonephritis (HBV-GN), and Others, the three lines showing the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles are all at the same level. The subgroups of Other include patients with hypertensive renal damage, interstitial nephritis, plasmacytoma-associated nephropathy, primary renal amyloidosis, purpura nephritis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis, C3 glomerulonephritis, acute tubular necrosis and mild glomerular ischemia with chronic interstitial fibrosis.