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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 9.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Gerontol. 2017 Oct 10;100:1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.exger.2017.10.003

Table 2.

Metabolites significantly associated with muscle composition (NDM/LDM).

β ± SE p-Value q-Value
Mannitol − 0.0 ± 0.0 1.0E − 05 0.0001
2-Hydroxyisobutyrate − 0.1 ± 0.0 5.6E − 05 0.0006
Urea − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.0008 0.005
Butyrylcarnitine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.0009 0.006
Pseudouridine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.001 0.008
N-acetylthreonine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.001 0.008
Tiglyl carnitine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.002 0.01
Erythronate − 0.1 ± 0.1 0.002 0.01
4-Acetamidobutanoate − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.002 0.01
Glutamine 0.2 ± 0.1 0.003 0.01
C-glycosyltryptophan − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.003 0.02
Serine 0.1 ± 0.0 0.004 0.02
Erythritol − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.004 0.02
Glutaroyl carnitine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.007 0.03
Glycoursodeoxycholate 0.0 ± 0.0 0.009 0.04
Phenylacetylglutamine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.01 0.04
Dimethylglycine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.04
5α-Androstan-3β,17beta-diol disulfate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.01 0.04
2-Methylbutyroylcarnitine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.04
Indolelactate − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.04
Alanine 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
N-acetylalanine − 0.1 ± 0.1 0.01 0.05
Methylglutarylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
Octanoylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
Myo-inositol − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
Arabitol − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
Biliverdin 0.0 ± 0.0 0.01 0.05
Arabonate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.02 0.05
Isobutrylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.02 0.05
Decanoylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.02 0.06
N-formylmethionine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.02 0.06
Glycine 0.1 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
Acetylcarnitine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
Phenol sulfate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
N1-methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
Glucuronate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
Trans-4-hydroxyproline − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.02 0.07
Laurylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.07
N-acetylmethionine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.03 0.07
Xanthine 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.07
Deoxycarnitine 0.1 ± 0.1 0.03 0.07
Cis-4-decenoyl carnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.08
Hexanoylcarnitine − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.08
Ergothioneine 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.08
Symmetric dimethylarginine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.03 0.08
Cortisone 0.1 ± 0.0 0.03 0.08
Asparagine 0.1 ± 0.0 0.03 0.09
N6-acetyllysine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.03 0.09
Tetradecanedioate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.03 0.09
7-Methylguanine 0.1 ± 0.0 0.04 0.09
Trans-urocanate 0.1 ± 0.0 0.04 0.09
10-Undecanoate 0.1 ± 0.0 0.04 0.09
1,5-Anhydroglucitol − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.04 0.09
Epiandrosterone sulfate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.04 0.09
7-α-Hydroxy-3-oxo-4-cholestenoate 0.1 ± 0.0 0.04 0.10
Threitol − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.05 0.10
1-Methylurate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.05 0.10
Androsterone sulfate − 0.0 ± 0.0 0.05 0.10
N-acetylserine − 0.1 ± 0.0 0.05 0.10
N1-methyladenosine − 0.1 ± 0.1 0.05 0.10

Sex, age and whole body fat mass-adjusted associations between serum metabolites with NDM/LDM are shown with parameter estimates and standard errors (β ± SE), in order of significance (p-value), and with q-values.