Analysis of the Human Adult Urinary Metabolome Variations with Age, Body Mass Index, and Gender by Implementing a Comprehensive Workflow for Univariate and OPLS Statistical Analyses

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3322-3335

  Thévenot, Etienne A ^a   Roux, Aurélie ^b   Xu, Ying ^b   Ezan, Eric ^b   Junot, Christophe ^b  

^a DIF   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

age; BMI; cohort; gender; high resolution mass spectrometry; metabolomics; orthogonal partial least squares; statistics; urine; workflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORTHOGONAL PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WORKFLOW; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; INTERNET; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URINE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84938818771     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00354     Document Type: Article

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