R: metabolomics mcad data set

mcad {robCompositions} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package robCompositions version 2.0.9 Index]