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. 2012 Feb 2;2:3. doi: 10.1186/2043-9113-2-3

Table 2.

Spearman's rank correlation

Spearman Correlation p-value % variance explained
Hypoxanthine 0.40 <0.0001 16.20
Aspartic acid 0.30 0.0001 9.18
Pyroglutamic acid 0.29 0.0001 8.34
2-methyl-Malic acid 0.27 0.0004 7.21
NA 1033 (trisaccharide) -0.27 0.0004 7.05
NA 1034 -0.23 0.0026 5.23
NA 1052 (carbohydrate) -0.22 0.0046 4.64
Myo-inositol 0.21 0.0052 4.51
NA 1027 (sterol phosphate) 0.21 0.0061 4.34
Threonic acid 0.21 0.0063 4.31
NA 997 (Uridine-5'-monophosphate) 0.20 0.0078 4.09
Glutamic acid 0.19 0.0104 3.80
NA 831 0.19 0.0119 3.67
NA 653 0.18 0.0179 3.25
Ketopentose 0.18 0.0181 3.24
Fucose 0.18 0.0192 3.18
Uracil 0.18 0.0213 3.08
Fructose -0.17 0.0233 2.99
NA 631 (D-Glucopyranose) -0.17 0.0235 2.98
NA 613 0.17 0.0251 2.91
NA 597 (pyranose) -0.16 0.0312 2.70
Isoleucine 0.16 0.0358 2.57
NA 275 0.16 0.0379 2.51
NA 639 0.16 0.0388 2.49
NA 442 0.16 0.0395 2.47
NA 560 0.16 0.0402 2.45
NA 854 (carbohydrate) 0.16 0.0413 2.43
Tartaric acid 0.15 0.0429 2.39
Fructose -0.15 0.0466 2.31
NA 632 -0.15 0.0486 2.27

Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, p-values and % of explained variance for all metabolites significantly correlated with Δglucose (significance level α = 0.05). Not yet identified metabolites are marked with NA, putative biochemical structures are given in round brackets.