TABLE 5.

Summary of the correlations between the mRNA levels of key intestinal genes in the insulin-sensitive subjects (n = 10)

Genes	SREBP-1c	SREBP-2	HNF-4α	HMG-CoAR	ACAT-2	NPC1L1	ACS-1	FABP-2	FATP-4	MTP	ApoB
SREBP-2	0.32	—
HNF-4α	0.22	0.34	—
HMG-CoAR	0.10	0.90b	0.16	—
ACAT-2	0.10	0.91b	0.25	0.93c	—
NPC1L1	−0.03	0.32	0.66a	0.07	0.26	—
ACS-1	0.47	0.89b	0.26	0.89b	0.81a	0.05	—
FABP-2	−0.04	0.18	0.30	0.20	0.05	−0.08	0.34	—
FATP-4	−0.04	0.19	0.66a	0.02	−0.02	0.47	0.15	0.76a	—
MTP	0.11	0.49	0.53	0.33	0.33	0.28	0.47	0.79a	0.74a	—
ApoB	0.16	0.28	0.25	0.08	0.08	0.34	0.31	0.68a	0.75a	0.66a	—
LDLR	0.39	0.63a	0.10	0.59	0.71a	0.14	0.60a	−0.34	−0.27	−0.03	−0.11

The correlation analyses were performed using Spearman's rank order correlation test. HMG-CoAR, HMG-CoA reductase; NPC1L1, Niemann-Pick C1-like 1.

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.001.

^cP < 0.0001.