Table 2 The salivary VOMs with highest specificity and sensitivity to discriminate HNC from control subjects.

From: Volatilomic insight of head and neck cancer via the effects observed on saliva metabolites

Compound

HMDB

AUC

Sensitivity

Specificity

p-value

FDR

Log2 FC

1,4-Dichlorobenzene

HMDB0041971

0.998

1

1

5.77E-11

2.77E-09

−4.46

1,2-Decanediol

0.939

1

0.8

7.48E-09

1.79E-07

−2.60

2,5-Bis1,1-dimethylethyl- phenol

0.913

0.9

0.8

8.32E-08

1.33E-06

−4.77

E-3-Decen-2-ol

0.889

0.8

0.8

4.28E-07

5.13E-06

−2.34

  1. Abbreviations: AUC- area under curve, FDR- false discovery rate.