Bioinformatic identification of proteins with tissue-specific expression for biomarker discovery

Table 1 Total number of proteins identified from mining gene and protein databases

	Tissue
	Colon	Lung	Pancreas	Prostate
Total unique proteins	976	679	1059	623
[in ≥ two databases]	[32]	[36]	[81]	[48]
Number of proteins identified in
One database	944	643	968	575
Two databases	23	30	46	32
Three databases	7	5	23	11
Four databases	1	1	9	4
Five databases	1	-	3	1
Number [%] of secreted or shed proteins in ≥ two databases^a	26	25	58	34
	[81]	[69]	[72]	[71]

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