Table 6.

Statistical loadings of variables from PCA of breast and thigh muscles.

Items1	Breast muscle2			Thigh muscle2
	BPC1	BPC2	BPC3	TPC1	TPC2	TPC3	TPC4
C14:0	0.768	0.573	0.143	0.928	0.105	0.185	0.138
C15:0	0.499	0.742	−0.332	0.970	0.098	0.087	0.131
C16:0	0.744	0.630	0.148	0.974	0.085	0.111	0.024
C17:0	0.489	0.809	0.144	0.944	0.176	0.066	0.160
C18:0	0.513	0.736	0.191	−0.210	−0.519	−0.166	0.152
C20:0	0.507	0.794	0.104	0.964	0.058	0.025	0.025
C22:0	0.802	0.135	−0.112	0.804	−0.070	0.087	−0.020
C14:1	0.846	0.276	0.107	0.843	−0.116	0.101	0.109
C16:1	0.858	0.435	0.090	0.935	0.011	0.098	−0.020
C17:1	0.247	0.304	0.600	−0.092	0.102	−0.770	0.034
C18:1(n-9)t	0.703	0.663	−0.116	0.138	0.023	0.770	0.087
C18:1(n-9)c	0.777	0.571	0.119	0.965	0.097	0.109	−0.052
C20:1	0.672	0.678	0.128	0.973	0.049	0.037	0.015
C22:1(n-9)	0.504	0.703	0.018	0.919	0.032	0.039	0.031
C18:2(n-6)c	0.638	0.626	0.399	0.971	0.126	0.104	0.086
C18:3(n-6)	0.655	0.587	0.324	0.906	0.206	0.064	0.192
C20:2(n-6)	0.234	0.887	−0.008	0.786	0.266	−0.015	0.337
C20:3(n-6)	0.156	0.525	0.669	0.821	0.398	0.109	0.181
C20:4(n-6)	0.036	0.091	0.894	0.032	0.751	−0.301	0.441
C18:3(n-3)	0.702	0.524	0.404	0.921	0.125	0.203	0.069
C20:3(n-3)	0.176	0.095	−0.582	0.195	−0.165	0.077	0.825
C22:6(n-3)	0.290	−0.439	0.706	0.013	0.722	−0.094	−0.155

Abbreviation: PCA, principal component analysis.

¹The loadings displayed in boldface were variables contributed greatly to the principal components.

²BPC, principal components of breast muscle; TPC, principal components of thigh muscle.