Table 1.
Twenty metabolites with their high absolute loading scores on PC1 and PC2, as obtained by PCA.
| PC1 | PC2 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Metabolite | Loading Score | Metabolite | Loading Score |
| trehalose | 0.990 | β-hydroxybutyric acid | 0.937 |
| glucose | 0.987 | β-alanine | 0.894 |
| galactose | 0.985 | citric acid | 0.794 |
| salicylic acid | 0.982 | threose | 0.727 |
| pyrophosphate | 0.975 | spermidine | 0.666 |
| mannitol | 0.969 | glycolic acid | 0.584 |
| uracil | 0.960 | glycerol | 0.572 |
| myo-inositol | 0.957 | aspartic acid | 0.561 |
| glycerol-1-phosphate | 0.952 | phosphate | 0.540 |
| guanosine | 0.948 | valine | 0.534 |
| succinic acid | −0.958 | nicotinamide | −0.896 |
| ornithine | −0.946 | threonine | −0.874 |
| phenylalanine | −0.903 | 1-monopalmitin | −0.807 |
| asparagine | −0.884 | phthalic acid | −0.771 |
| serine | −0.837 | xanthine | −0.744 |
| tyrosine | −0.826 | glucose-6-phosphate | −0.696 |
| ethanolamine | −0.821 | methionine | −0.688 |
| glutamate | −0.772 | pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid | −0.665 |
| phosphate | −0.725 | 2-ketoisocaproic acid | −0.633 |
| aspartic acid | −0.665 | lysine | −0.633 |