Different number of isotypes per antigen - Ab titer table

I am looking at the Ab titers data and filtering for sample id = 1.

For 1% PFA PT I get the following subtable:

For FHA I get:

And for PT I get:

Why do different antigens have different numbers of antibodies tested? Is that by design and why do we sometimes see an overall value for IgG but other times we don’t (as you can see in the first and second table).

Thanks!

This is something we need to work on the tables and I think that you are helping us greatly to identify some issues in our data.
Here I see some concerning things regarding the units and we will check this. IU were never used for the IgG isotypes neither for antigen-specific IgE. You can see in the table attached the only values for which we provide the IU/ml:

Regarding the PT vs 1%PFA, in this case there is an issue with the labelling of the antigen. The same antigen was used, so the anti-PT IgG value (total IgG against PT, regardless of being IgG1, IgG2, IgG3 or IgG4) should show up in the 1%PFA PT.

Again, thanks for all this input. This is great and needed to improve the database.

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Glad I could help! For now I will try out the other tasks/datasets and post if I find any
thing strange.

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