Metabolite name: 

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 Chemical taxonomy:  --select super class-- Alkaloids and derivatives Benzenoids Homogeneous non-metal compounds Hydrocarbons Lipids and lipid-like molecules Nucleosides, nucleotides, and analogues Organic acids and derivatives Organic compounds Organic nitrogen compounds Organic oxygen compounds Organohalogen compounds Organoheterocyclic compounds Organonitrogen compounds Organooxygen compounds Organosulfur compounds Phenylpropanoids and polyketides    --select class--    --select sub class--

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 Participants:  

Case  

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	benign lung disease	lung cancer_unspecified	NSCLC_adenocarcinoma
	NSCLC_adenosquamous carcinoma	NSCLC_large cell carcinoma	NSCLC_squamous cell carcinoma
	NSCLC_unspecified	other types of lung cancer	SCLC

Cancer stage  

	I	I, II	I, II, III
	I, II, IV	II, III, IV	I, II, III, IV

Control  

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	at-risk controls	before vs. after treatment	healthy controls
	NSCLC_unspecified	NSCLC_squamous cell carcinoma	noncancerous lung diseases
	tumor vs. adjacent normal tissue

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 Specimen:  

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	blood	bronchoalveolar lavage fluid	dried blood spot	exhaled breath	plasma
	pleural effusion	serum	sputum	tissue	urine

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 Marker function:

diagnosis

prediagnosis

prognosis

therapy

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 Chromatography:  

DI

Flow infusion

GC

LC

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 Ion source:  

APCI

APPI

AFADESI

EI

ESI

Nano-ESI

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 P-value:   

e.g. 0.01

p-value ≦

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 FDR:   

e.g. 0.1

FDR ≦

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 Fold change(case / control):   

e.g. 0.1

fold change ≧

or

fold change ≦

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 VIP :   

e.g. 1

VIP ≧

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