Prediction of acute multiple sclerosis relapses by transcription levels of peripheral blood cells

BMC Medical Genomics

Table 4 The performances (error rate) of the predictors in different subgroups of patients.

Predictor	CIS	Definite MS	Non treated	Interferon beta 1a Avonex	Interferon beta 1b Betaferon	Interferon beta 1a Rebif	Glatiramer acetate Copaxone	Intravenous Immunoglobulines Iv-Ig	Average error rate
FLP1	0.10	0.08	0.087	0.01	0.01	0.09	0.18	0.175	0.079
FLP2	0.10	0.08	0.085	0.02	0.03	0.05	0.215	0.18	0.0791
FLP3	0.088	0.071	0.082	0.01	0.02	0.105	0.165	0.17	0.0792
FTP1	0.21	0.355	0.332	--	--	0.42	0.54	0.34	0.345
FTP2	0.29	0.38	0.366	--	--	0.345	0.51	0.3	0.349
3FTP	0.27	0.37	0.366	--	--	0.245	0.535	0.41	0.349
FTP4	0.31	0.38	0.352	--	--	0.235	0.53	0.37	0.349

FLP1 – FLP3 denote FLPs and FTP1 – FTP4 denote FTPs; see Table 5 for the genes in each predictor) on each sub-group (when applicable), and the average error-rate (last column). The average error rate is the error rate when considering the entire dataset.

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