On 2016 Nov 02, Eiko Fried commented:

What the study actually found is this: none of the 171 serum proteins differed between MDD cases and controls, seeing that none of the 171 markers differed after controlling for multiple testing.

The authors do not report this most important core finding of their study in the abstract, and instead claim that 28 of the 171 markers differed between the two groups. I struggle to understand why the authors chose to report the uncorrected findings instead of the proper statistical results — the corrected findings – in the abstract.

On 2016 Nov 02, Eiko Fried commented:

What the study actually found is this: none of the 171 serum proteins differed between MDD cases and controls, seeing that none of the 171 markers differed after controlling for multiple testing.

The authors do not report this most important core finding of their study in the abstract, and instead claim that 28 of the 171 markers differed between the two groups. I struggle to understand why the authors chose to report the uncorrected findings instead of the proper statistical results — the corrected findings – in the abstract.