borderline significancep = 0.053
No metabolites were specific for the unbalanced dataset, possibly with an exception of taurine with borderline significance (p = 0.053).
No metabolites were specific for the unbalanced dataset, possibly with an exception of taurine with borderline significance (p = 0.053).
The expression of succinate genes also showed a comparable expression pattern in the validation data, though SUCLA2 and SDHD were only borderline significant (p = 0.054 and p = 0.066 respectively).
Concordantly, we observe a highly significant downregulation of ACO1 , upregulation of fatty acid synthesis genes ACLY , ACACA and FASN , and downregulation of fatty acid oxidation gene ACACB in the unbalanced dataset where PCa are compared to the stroma.
In the complete dataset, where the statistical power is doubled, citrate levels did not reach statistical significance between cancer and normal samples.