| Component 1 | First component score |
| DFI | Daily feed intake |
| FC | Fold change |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| LC-MS | Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry |
| GRM | Genetic relationship matrix |
| GWAS | Genome-wide association study |
| HWE | Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium |
| LD | Linkage disequilibrium |
| LOD | Limit of detection |
| LLOR | Logarithm of likelihood odd ratio |
| MAF | Minor allele frequency |
| mGWAS | Metabolite GWAS |
| NCBI | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| pDFI | Predicted daily feed intake |
| PLS-DA | Partial least squares-discriminant analysis |
| QC | Quality control |
| QTL | Quantitative trait locus |
| RFI | Residual feed intake |
| SNP | Single nucleotide polymorphism |
| UCSC | University of California Santa Cruz |