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Table 1  A summary of metabolites associated with RFI and its component traits in a multibreed population of beef cattle

From: Identification of candidate genes and enriched biological functions for feed efficiency traits by integrating plasma metabolites and imputed whole genome sequence variants in beef cattle

Trait1

Metabolite2

P-value3

b4

Vm/VP (%)5

RFI

L-valine

6.94E-03

2.72E-03

5.90

lysine

9.61E-03

3.96E-03

 L-tyrosine

2.40E-02

6.65E-03

 L-isoleucine

2.64E-02

5.80E-03

 L-leucine

3.40E-02

3.13E-03

DMI

lysine

1.15E-02

5.06E-03

4.04

 L-lactic acid

2.25E-02

-6.98E-05

 L-tyrosine

2.45E-02

8.69E-03

choline

9.27E-02

6.69E-04

ADG

citric acid

3.56E-02

4.31E-04

0.93

MWT

L-glutamine

1.49E-02

3.57E-02

3.39

glycine

5.29E-02

-4.79E-03

citric acid

6.11E-02

-9.56E-03

dimethyl sulfone

9.67E-02

-2.63E-02

  1. 1RFI residual feed intake in kg of DMI per day, DMI daily dry matter intake in kg per day, ADG average daily gain in kg, MWT metabolic body weight in kg
  2. 2The unit of metabolite concentration is µM
  3. 3The significance level of regression analysis is P-value < 0.1
  4. 4b regression coefficient
  5. 5Vm/VP the proportion of phenotypic variance of feed efficiency traits explained by associated metabolites (%)