Table 1.
Top four plasma metabolites identified as significant predictors of tumor count using elastic net and their corresponding coefficient values
Metabolite | Coefficient | MSI level* |
---|---|---|
Azelate | 0.0878 | 1 |
7 α-hydroxycholesterol | 0.0865 | 1 |
β-sitosterol | − 0.0864 | 1 |
Succinate | − 0.0959 | 1 |
*Metabolomics standards initiative (MSI) level is based on MSI guidelines for naming non-novel metabolites (Sumner et al., 2007). Selected metabolites in this dataset are classified as “Tier 1”