Summary of analysis methods.

Three analysis methods were used to evaluate the abundance consistency of each individual candidate protein; values in bold indicate the top ranked score for each method. 1) The difference between treated and untreated animals for each experimental condition was assessed by Student's t-tests; a p-value <0.05 was deemed significant. 2) The variation of each candidate was assessed using the NormFinder algorithm in two separate cohorts; a lower score indicates greater stability. 3) The comparative normalization method was used to evaluate the ability of each candidate to remove variation from a dataset; the average standard deviation for each pair-wise comparison is reported.
Summary of analysis methods.