Identification of Microbial and Proteomic Biomarkers in Early Childhood Caries

Figure 6

Importance of proteomic profile peaks according to their individual discriminative power. Mass-to-charge (𝑚/𝑧) positions of discriminative peaks are indicated along the 𝑦-axis. Shaded bars indicate the importance of the peak as measured by the Wilcoxon rank-sum score. A larger importance indicates a larger propensity for that particular profile peak to be differentially expressed in the caries-free versus the caries-active group. The most differentially expressed profile peak appears at 10214 Daltons, followed by the peak at 9156 Daltons.