Table 4.

Relationship between perirenal fat gene expression (relative to 18S) and fetal weight, fat mass and metabolic status at day 89 and 130 of gestation, irrespective of maternal nutrition and gender.

	PPARG	G3PDH	LPL	FASN	HSL	Leptin	UCP-1	IGF1	IGF2	IGF1R	IGF2R
Day 89
Fetal weight, g	0.137	0.139	0.161	0.333	0.274	0.122	0.203	0.257	0.189	−0.132	0.066
Perirenal fat mass, g	0.619*	0.636*	0.707**	0.807***	0.770***	0.759**	0.630*	0.505	0.389	−0.060	0.325
Perirenal fat, g/kg fetus	0.729**	0.717**	0.795***	0.808***	0.805***	0.872***	0.702**	0.558*	0.442	0.049	0.420
Plasma glucose	−0.207	−0.282	−0.233	−0.177	−0.166	−0.215	−0.397	−0.105	−0.075	−0.323	−0.234
Plasma insulin	−0.497	−0.413	−0.584*	−0.538*	−0.696**	−0.489	−0.697**	−0.377	−0.436	−0.205	−0.400
Day 130
Fetal weight, g	−0.422	−0.560*	−0.511	0.239	−0.612*	0.015	0.003	0.390	0.093	−0.061	−0.047
Perirenal fat mass, g	−0.328	−0.570*	−0.315	0.193	−0.549*	0.179	0.421	0.483	0.267	0.093	0.140
Perirenal fat, g/kg fetus	−0.064	−0.315	0.010	0.084	−0.222	0.208	0.594*	0.343	0.295	0.161	0.221
Plasma glucose	0.172	0.215	0.197	0.361	−0.130	0.689**	0.265	0.879***	0.796**	0.631*	0.741**
Plasma insulin	−0.059	−0.137	0.129	0.016	−0.241	0.716**	0.192	0.597*	0.477	0.449	0.475

Values are Pearson correlation coefficients with significant values shown in bold,

^*P<0.05,

^**P<0.01,

^***P<0.001.