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. 2012 May 3;4(1):165–171. doi: 10.3892/etm.2012.567

Table III.

VIP values of the major contributing metabolites for the separation in the score plots derived from PLS-DA.

Metabolites VIP value
α-oxoglutarate 1.328
Glycine 1.942
Citrate 0.704
Aspartate 1.213
Acetate 2.348
Alanine 0.841
Cholesterol 0.536
Cysteine 0.964
Histidine 2.815
Hypoxanthine 1.224
Lactate 0.872
Glutamine 1.116
Methionine 2.478
Serine 0.836
Taurine 3.624
Tryptophan 1.462
Trimethylamine-N-oxide 2.367
Uracil 2.437
Uric acid 3.837

VIP, variable importance in the projection.