Table 1. Intra- and inter-assay reproducibility of the GPL fatty acid analysis.

	Intra-assay (n = 8)			Inter-assay (n = 26)
	Mean	SD	CV [%]	Mean	SD	CV [%]
Saturated Fatty Acids
C14:0	0.35	0.01	3.7	0.32	0.04	12.6
C16:0	22.99	1.01	4.4	23.31	0.80	3.4
C17:0	0.34	0.02	4.6	0.32	0.04	11.3
C18:0	18.34	0.27	1.5	17.92	0.40	2.3
Monounsaturated Fatty Acids
C16:1n-7	0.29	0.02	7.6	0.35	0.03	8.6
C18:1n-7	1.45	0.03	2.0	1.42	0.15	10.9
C18:1n-9	14.07	0.22	1.5	13.38	0.22	1.6
C20:1n-9	0.29	0.00	3.3	0.27	0.01	4.9
n-9 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
C20:3n-9	0.11	0.00	4.2	0.11	0.01	9.5
n-6 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
C18:2n-6	11.84	0.50	4.3	12.34	0.16	1.3
C18:3n-6	0.06	0.00	3.7	0.08	0.01	10.1
C20:2n-6	0.22	0.01	6.4	0.25	0.01	5.3
C20:3n-6	2.37	0.02	1.0	2.21	0.04	1.7
C20:4n-6	15.39	0.84	5.5	15.57	0.55	3.5
C22:4n-6	2.37	0.25	10.5	3.20	0.20	6.3
C22:5n-6	0.67	0.02	3.0	0.64	0.03	5.0
n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
C18:3n-3	0.15	0.01	4.6	0.10	0.01	8.7
C20:5n-3	0.75	0.04	5.5	0.69	0.05	6.6
C22:5n-3	2.35	0.22	9.3	2.31	0.14	6.2
C22:6n-3	5.68	0.17	2.9	5.16	0.26	5.0

Mean and SD are expressed as %wt/wt.