R: Metabolic profiles in tuberculosis.

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## Metabolic profiles in tuberculosis.

### Description

Relative abundances of metabolites from serum samples of three groups of individuals

### Details

A data frame with 136 observations on 425 metabolic variables.

Serum samples from three groups of individuals were compared: tuberculin skin test negative (NEG), positive (POS) and clinical tuberculosis (TB).

### References

Weiner J 3rd, Parida SK, Maertzdorf J, Black GF, Repsilber D, et al. (2012) Biomarkers of Inflammation, Immunosuppression and Stress Are Revealed by Metabolomic Profiling of Tuberculosis Patients. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40221. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040221

### Examples

    data(metabo)
     # maybe str(metabo) ; plot(metabo) ...
     pca <- prcomp( metabo[,-1] )

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