| PKU | Phenylketonuria |
| HPA | Hyperphenylalaninemia |
| BH4-r-HPA | Tetrahydrobiopterin-Responsive Hyperphenylalaninemia |
| CPKU | Classical Phenylketonuria |
| Phe | Phenylalanine |
| Tyr | Tyrosine |
| Trp | Tryptophan |
| Phe/Tyr | Phenylalanine to Tyrosine ratio |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| BW | Body Weight |
| IQR | Interquartile Range |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| LC-MS/MS | Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry |
| Q-TOF | Quadrupole Time-of-Flight |
| CE | Collision Energy |
| DDA | Data-Dependent Analysis |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| PLS-DA | Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis |
| VIP | Variable Importance in Projection |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
| ESI | Electrospray Ionization |
| QC | Quality Control |
| TG | Triglyceride |
| DG | Diglyceride |
| PC | Phosphatidylcholine |
| LPC | Lysophosphatidylcholine |
| SM | Sphingomyelin |
| PUFA | Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids |
| AGE | Advanced Glycation End Products |
| ARPs | Amadori Rearrangement Products |
| HbA1c | Hemoglobin A1c (glycosylated hemoglobin) |
| IRIS | Infrared Ion Spectroscopy |
| MRM | Multiple Reaction Monitoring |
| UHPLC | Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography |
| v/v | Volume/Volume |
| m/z | Mass-to-Charge-Ratio |