Research Article

Mass Spectrometric Screening of Ovarian Cancer with Serum Glycans

Table 3

Candidate biomarkers with , detection frequency, mean intensities, values, and AUC in the training set.

FractionaMarker typeTheoretical Measured Δ (10−3 Da)CompositionFrequencyIntensityP valueAUCc
AverageSDb (10−3 Da)HexHex
NAc
FucNeu
AC
NormalPatient

10%N-glycan1501.5293 1501.5222 3.5 7.1 4400100%100%14.28 ± 4.4810.86 ± 3.76 0.72
1647.5873 1647.5916 2.2 4410100%100%70.34 ± 8.9163.17 ± 9.82 0.71
1663.5823 1663.5794 2.4 2.9 5400100%100%8.93 ± 2.356.15 ± 2.13 0.81
1809.6403 1809.6413 1.8 5410100%100%9.34 ± 2.256.68 ± 3.06 0.77
1866.6613 1866.6568 2.5 4.5 5500100%100%2.03 ± 0.471.65 ± 0.42 0.73
2012.7193 2012.7207 1.6 5510100%100%9.61 ± 1.857.86 ± 1.87 0.74
Glycan1467.4853 1467.5312 3.7 7020100%100%1.15 ± 0.311.43 ± 0.43 0.69
Nonglycan1384.4855 2.6 100%100%1.85 ± 0.642.46 ± 0.87 0.71

20%N-glycan1444.5073 1444.5009 1.9 6.4 4310100%100%3.57 ± 0.403.06 ± 0.50 0.78
1485.5343 1485.5305 1.3 3.8 3410100%100%63.17 ± 13.9978.05 ± 21.98 0.72
1663.5823 1663.5646 3.6 17.8 5400100%100%3.94 ± 0.933.08 ± 0.62 0.82
1809.6403 1809.6399 0.5 0.4 5410100%100%98.55 ± 12.9384.32 ± 20.20 0.72
Glycan1483.4803 1483.5146 3.7 8010100%100%0.86 ± 0.211.17 ± 0.49 0.68
1524.5073 1524.4894 3.8 17.9 711099%99%0.95 ± 0.210.72 ± 0.25 0.76
1540.5023 1540.4550 3.7 47.3 8100100%100%2.04 ± 0.581.40 ± 0.56 0.79
1629.5383 1629.5791 3.3 8020100%100%2.70 ± 0.372.39 ± 0.42 0.72
1791.5913 1791.6336 3.7 9010100%100%1.48 ± 0.241.06 ± 0.32 0.85
Nonglycan1280.4357 2.7 100%100%2.34 ± 0.362.08 ± 0.38 0.69
1442.4848 3.4 100%100%1.21 ± 0.190.90 ± 0.23 0.84
1502.5077 4.8 100%100%3.66 ± 0.533.15 ± 0.50 0.75
1518.4722 5.6 100%98%0.87 ± 0.370.59 ± 0.26 0.75
1562.4391 7.2 100%98%0.67 ± 0.150.52 ± 0.14 0.77
1708.5716 5.5 100%100%2.67 ± 0.511.93 ± 0.62 0.82
1945.6596 5.1 100%100%1.92 ± 0.301.36 ± 0.46 0.84

Acetonitrile/H2O fraction in the elution of glycans from graphitized carbon cartridges.
The standard deviation of each in the training set was calculated and expressed in 10−3 Da.
AUC of the biomarkers selected for the use in the later blind test set is in  bold.