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4.3. STUDY RESULTS 79<br />

Figure 4.3.3: Left: Masterpeaks <strong>of</strong> two groups (top: men; bottom: woman) at m/z<br />

2274da. Obviously <strong>the</strong> average height <strong>of</strong> a peak in <strong>the</strong> woman’s group is lower than<br />

in <strong>the</strong> men’s group. This is also clearly shown in <strong>the</strong> chart <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> height distributions<br />

(right): <strong>the</strong> two distributions do overlap between 400-800, but outside this area <strong>the</strong>re<br />

is a clear domination <strong>of</strong> one group.<br />

with respect to a property P but differ to peaks in group B at position<br />

X (again with respect to property P ) are sought <strong>for</strong>. An example is<br />

shown in Figure 4.3.3: two masterpeaks and <strong>the</strong>ir respective height distributions<br />

(<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir single peaks) are shown. The best combinations <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>se distinguishing peaks are <strong>the</strong>n used to create fingerprints. Thus, a<br />

fingerprint is basically a list <strong>of</strong> m/z values. Each list entry has attached<br />

<strong>the</strong> considered property (e.g. peak height or peak width) and <strong>the</strong> average<br />

value <strong>of</strong> this property <strong>for</strong> each group. A fingerprint can be used to<br />

classify unknown spectra (see Sec 4.3.2).<br />

Difference <strong>Analysis</strong>: Based on <strong>the</strong> distinguishing features found during <strong>the</strong><br />

fingerprint detection stage, fur<strong>the</strong>r investigations can be done that analyze<br />

<strong>the</strong>se differences. For example, using tandem mass spectrometry,<br />

<strong>the</strong> underlying proteins can be determined (see section 4.3.4).<br />

Clustering: Spectra <strong>of</strong> one groups can be clustered using <strong>the</strong> fingerprint features<br />

to detect sub-groups within a group, e.g. a particular sub-group<br />

<strong>of</strong> cancer type X (see section 4.3.3).<br />

4.3.1 Correlation <strong>of</strong> Patient Meta Data to Peaks<br />

This analysis finds correlations <strong>of</strong> certain meta-data such as blood parameters<br />

to peak properties. These correlations are found between properties <strong>of</strong> peaks<br />

(e.g. height) from a particular group <strong>of</strong> patients (e.g. 20 year old men from<br />

a blood donator study) and available meta-data <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>se patients (e.g. blood<br />

parameters such as FT3).<br />

The actual analysis computes <strong>the</strong> correlation corXi,j between a peak property<br />

i (e.g. peak height, peak area, peak width, peak shape) and some parameter<br />

j which can be almost anything that is related to a patient (e.g. sex, age,

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