Table 3.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between genes expression levels and fatty acid composition in subcutaneous adipose tissue and longissimus lumborum muscle from Alentejana and Barrosã breeds^1-2

	TL	14:0	16:0	18:0	18:1 t 11	18:1 c 9	18:1 c 11	CLA	SFA	MUFA	TFA
SAT
ACACA	0.22	−0.10	−0.16	−0.11	0.09	0.26	−0.1	0.25	−0.17	0.19	0.06
CPT1B	−0.02	−0.04	−0.09	0.20	−0.04	−0.06	0.08	0.04	0.07	−0.05	−0.14
CRAT	0.21	−0.13	−0.25	−0.12	0.12	0.27	−0.15	0.26	−0.22	0.20	0.10
FABP4	0.38*	−0.22	−0.45**	−0.41*	0.27	0.34*	0.37*	0.58***	0.51***	0.48**	0.28
LPL	0.34*	−0.33*	−0.42**	−0.16	0.15	0.48**	−0.08	0.35*	−0.34*	0.35*	0.07
PPARA	0.21	−0.10	−0.18	−0.14	−0.03	0.28	−0.11	0.20	−0.19	0.23	−0.05
PPARG	0.14	−0.20	−0.13	−0.12	−0.04	0.25	0.02	0.10	−0.18	0.21	0.02
SCD	0.24	−0.31	−0.48**	−0.26	0.13	0.51**	−0.03	0.45**	−0.44**	0.43**	0.15
SREBF1	0.15	−0.19	−0.16	−0.19	−0.01	0.26	0.00	0.19	−0.23	0.24	0.08
Muscle
ACACA	0.48**	0.15	0.20	0.01	0.25	0.20	0.10	0.14	0.20	0.23	0.40*
CPT1B	0.13	−0.05	−0.06	0.00	0.18	0.14	0.28	0.20	−0.11	0.21	0.05
CRAT	−0.17	−0.18	−0.13	0.20	−0.16	−0.11	0.17	−0.30	0.05	−0.10	−0.33*
FABP4	0.36*	0.19	0.20	−0.16	0.26	0.42**	−0.11	0.17	0.07	0.38*	0.21
LPL	0.09	−0.03	−0.05	−0.21	0.02	0.27	−0.06	0.14	−0.21	0.25	−0.13
PPARA	−0.19	0.08	0.17	−0.06	−0.30	−0.33*	0.01	−0.21	0.09	−0.30	−0.27
PPARG	0.21	0.35*	0.28	−0.27	0.17	0.22	−0.18	0.30	0.03	0.23	0.09
SCD	0.25	−0.05	0.04	0.08	0.26	0.13	0.14	0.13	0.19	0.12	0.39*
SREBF1	0.08	0.14	0.16	−0.01	0.05	−0.14	0.48**	0.31	0.13	0.03	0.33*

¹TL, total lipids; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue.

²Significance level *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001.