Sacurine
Analysis of the human adult urinary metabolome
Description
Study: Characterization of the physiological variations of the metabolome in biofluids is critical to understand human physiology and to avoid confounding effects in cohort studies aiming at biomarker discovery.
Dataset: In this study conducted by the MetaboHUB French Infrastructure for Metabolomics, urine samples from 184 volunteers were analyzed by reversed-phase (C18) ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (LTQ-Orbitrap). A total of 258 metabolites were identified at confidence levels provided by the metabolomics standards initiative (MSI) levels 1 or 2.
Workflow: This history describes the statistical analysis of the data set from the negative ionization mode (113 identified metabolites at MSI levels 1 or 2): correction of signal drift (loess model built on QC pools) and batch effects (two batches), variable filtering (QC coefficent of variation < 30%), normalization by the sample osmolality, log10 transformation, sample filtering (Hotelling, decile and missing pvalues > 0.001) resulting in the HU_096 sample being discarded, univariate hypothesis testing of significant variations with age, BMI, or between genders (FDR < 0.05), and OPLS(-DA) modeling of age, BMI and gender.
Comments: The ‘sacurine’ data set (after normalization and filtering) is also available in the ropls R package from the Bioconductor repository.