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. 2021 Sep 27;13(10):3399. doi: 10.3390/nu13103399

Table 6.

Predicted probability of Zn adequacy of hypothetical subjects using the above ZSI example 1 1.

Hypothetical
Subject
LA:DGLA (x1) Δ6-Desaturase (x2) Blautia (x3) Predicted Probability of Zn Adequacy (p) Estimated Zn Status
Percentile Value (AU) Percentile Value (AU) Percentile Value (AU)
Subject 1A 50 50 50 192 50 0.021 0.59 Mildly Zn deficient
Subject 1B 20 38 50 192 50 0.021 0.64 Minimally Zn adequate
Subject 1C 50 50 80 249 50 0.021 0.25 Moderately Zn deficient
Subject 1D 50 50 50 192 80 0.035 0.73 Minimally Zn adequate

1 Note that in all these hypothetical scenarios we assume that the data have been standardized relative to a reference experiment.