Table 7.
Predicted probability of Zn adequacy of hypothetical subjects using the above ZSI example 2 1.
| Hypothetical Subject |
LA:DGLA (x1) | Δ6-Desaturase (x2) | Unclassified Lachnospiraceae (x3) |
Predicted Probability of Zn Adequacy (p) | Estimated Zn Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentile | Value (AU) | Percentile | Value (AU) | Percentile | Value (AU) | |||
| Subject 2A | 50 | 50 | 50 | 192 | 20 | 0.013 | 0.33 | Moderately Zn deficient |
| Subject 2B | 20 | 38 | 50 | 192 | 20 | 0.013 | 0.37 | Moderately Zn deficient |
| Subject 2C | 50 | 50 | 20 | 153 | 20 | 0.013 | 0.62 | Minimally Zn adequate |
| Subject 2D | 50 | 50 | 50 | 192 | 80 | 0.034 | 0.90 | Zn adequate |
1 Note that in all these hypothetical scenarios we assume that the data have been standardized relative to a reference experiment.