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. 2021 Sep 3;17(9):80. doi: 10.1007/s11306-021-01831-1

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”