Table 2.

Spearman partial correlation coefficients for the association between the expression of duodenal genes involved in common nutrient transport function

Nucleoside transporters					Amino acid transporters						Sugar transporters			Mineral transporters				Lipid transporter
SLC	28A2	28A3	29A1	3A1	3A2	6A14	7A1	7A6	7A7	15A1	2A2	2A5	5A1	11A2	31A1	39A4	TRPV6	ABCG8
28A1	0.89*	0.62	0.62	0.70	0.96**	0.95*	0.28	0.84	−0.01	0.84	0.97**	0.78	0.36	0.75	0.84	0.71	0.83	0.45
28A2		0.35	0.75	0.34	0.92*	0.73	0.36	0.94	−0.12	0.94*	0.97**	0.92*	0.49	0.73	0.70	0.49	0.83	0.52
28A3			0.21	0.93*	0.68	0.63	−0.24	0.51	0.47	0.51	0.54	0.46	0.42	0.44	0.90*	0.98**	0.61	−0.09
29A1				0.14	0.67	0.40	0.77	0.64	−0.58	−0.58	0.70	0.83	0.05	0.94*	0.40	0.26	0.34	0.86
3A1					0.66	0.79	−0.16	0.43	0.38	0.43	0.56	0.33	0.23	0.42	0.85	0.91*	0.57	−0.02
3A2						0.85	0.20	0.93*	0.08	0.93*	0.98**	0.89*	0.53	0.75	0.91*	0.78	0.89	0.38
6A14							0.17	0.67	0.05	0.67	0.86*	0.55	0.22	0.60	0.79	0.69	0.74	0.33
7A1								0.10	−0.95*	0.10	0.31	0.33	−0.54	0.73	−0.13	−0.24	−0.18	0.98**
7A6									0.15	1.0***	0.93*	0.94*	0.72	0.62	0.82	0.65	0.93	0.28
7A7										0.15	−0.04	−0.08	0.69	−0.50	0.41	0.50	0.43	−0.88*
15A1											0.93*	0.94*	0.72	0.62	0.82	0.65	0.93	0.28
2A2												0.88*	0.46	0.76	0.82	0.65	0.86	0.48
2A5													0.57	0.79	0.73	0.57	0.77	0.49
5A1														−0.01	0.63	0.54	0.80	−0.40
11A2															0.56	0.46	0.39	0.83
31A1																0.96**	0.88	0.04
39A4																	0.74	−0.08
TRPV6																		−0.01

The probability of a coefficient not being statistically different from zero is denoted as follows: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001.

Bold represents significant (P<0.05) results in terms of difference between means in Table 1 or correlations in Tables 2 and 3.