Figure 2.

Consistency between log-transformed DBS and plasma metabolite profiles. (a) PCA plot of log-transformed metabolite profiles. Ellipses show 95% confidence regions for each sample type. Numbers in brackets denote the percentage of total variation explained by each principal component. (b) Distribution of interclass correlation (red) and Spearman correlation (blue) coefficients between paired plasma and DBS samples. Dotted lines denote means.