mcad {robCompositions}

metabolomics mcad data set

Description

The aim of the experiment was to ascertain novel biomarkers of MCAD (Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase) deficiency. The data consists of 25 patients and 25 controls and the analysis was done by LC-MS. Rows represent patients and controls and columns represent chemical entities with their quantity.

Usage

data(mcad)

Format

A data frame with 50 observations and 279 variables

Details

• group patient group

• ... the remaining variables columns are represented by m/z which are chemical characterizations of individual chemical components on exact mass measurements..

References

Najdekr L., Gardlo A., Madrova L., Friedeckyy D., Janeckova H., Correa E.S., Goodacre R., Adam T., Oxidized phosphatidylcholines suggest oxidative stress in patients with medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, Talanta 139, 2015, 62-66.

Examples

data(mcad)
str(mcad)