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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genes Brain Behav. 2014 Oct 27;13(8):758–768. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12179

TABLE 3.

Factor Analysis of correlations in expression between glutamatergic genes

Protein Gene Factor
1
Factor
2
Factor
3
Factor
4
Factor
5
Factor
6
h2

AMPA GRIA1 0.61 0.29 0.44 0.15 −0.05 −0.02 0.68
AMPA GRIA2 0.96 −0.01 0.24 0.07 −0.07 0.07 0.99
AMPA GRIA3 0.87 −0.08 0.33 −0.05 −0.07 0.16 0.90
AMPA GRIA4 0.56 0.64 0.06 −0.01 0.26 0.12 0.82

Kainate GRIK1 0.10 0.69 0.18 −0.09 0.23 −0.01 0.58
Kainate GRIK2 0.26 0.90 0.01 −0.03 −0.09 0.08 0.89
Kainate GRIK3 0.61 0.13 0.34 −0.05 0.21 0.63 0.95
Kainate GRIK4 0.42 0.19 0.62 0.28 0.00 0.03 0.68
Kainate GRIK5 0.31 0.18 0.81 0.04 0.14 −0.08 0.81

NMDA GRIN1 0.49 −0.04 0.70 −0.15 0.24 0.14 0.83
NMDA GRIN2A 0.87 0.03 0.18 −0.06 0.05 0.36 0.92
NMDA GRIN2B 0.47 −0.04 −0.01 −0.03 0.00 0.55 0.53
NMDA GRIN2C −0.33 0.87 −0.08 0.17 −0.15 −0.06 0.92
NMDA GRIN2D 0.02 0.14 0.08 −0.04 0.94 0.06 0.92
NMDA GRIN3A 0.77 −0.08 0.23 0.06 0.20 0.17 0.72

Metab Gp I GRM1 0.11 0.91 0.07 −0.06 0.35 0.01 0.96
Metab Gp I GRM5 0.85 −0.09 0.17 0.10 0.32 0.11 0.88
Metab Gp II GRM2 0.46 0.02 0.74 −0.18 0.13 0.28 0.88
Metab Gp II GRM3 0.19 −0.15 0.37 0.67 0.02 0.00 0.64
Metab Gp III GRM4 −0.19 0.96 −0.01 −0.03 −0.05 −0.01 0.97
Metab Gp III GRM7 0.66 0.08 0.41 −0.11 0.59 0.00 0.97
Metab Gp III GRM8 0.71 −0.08 0.39 −0.16 0.04 −0.06 0.70

Transporter SLC1A1 0.68 0.03 0.28 −0.01 0.64 0.02 0.96
Transporter SLC1A2 −0.01 −0.13 −0.08 0.89 −0.01 −0.01 0.82
Transporter SLC1A3 −0.13 0.14 −0.13 0.88 −0.08 −0.04 0.83
Transporter SLC1A6 −0.17 0.88 0.10 −0.05 −0.02 −0.03 0.82
Variance 0.29 0.20 0.13 0.09 0.09 0.04

Gene loadings ≥ 0.5 for each factor are identified by bold font h2 = the communality estimate i.e. the proportion of the variance of that variable that the factor accounts for.