Phenylketonuria

The data frame Phenyl records the level of Q10 at four different times for 46 patients diagnosed with phenylketonuria. The variable Q10.1 contains the level of Q10 measured in micromoles for the 46 patients. Q10.2, Q10.3, and Q10.4 are the values recorded at later times respectively for the 46 patients.

Format

A data frame with 46 observations on the following 4 variables.

Q10.1

level of Q10 at time 1 in micromoles

Q10.2

level of Q10 at time 2 in micromoles

Q10.3

level of Q10 at time 3 in micromoles

Q10.4

level of Q10 at time 4 in micromoles

Source

Artuch, R., et. al. (2004) “Study of Antioxidant Status in Phenylketonuric Patients.” Clinical Biochemistry, 37: 198-203.

Details

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder that is characterized by an inability of the body to utilize the essential amino acid, phenylalanine. Research suggests patients with phenylketonuria have deficiencies in coenzyme Q10.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

with(data = Phenyl,
t.test(Q10.1, conf.level = 0.99))
#> 
#> 	One Sample t-test
#> 
#> data:  Q10.1
#> t = 15.629, df = 45, p-value < 2.2e-16
#> alternative hypothesis: true mean is not equal to 0
#> 99 percent confidence interval:
#>  0.4717314 0.6678339
#> sample estimates:
#> mean of x 
#> 0.5697826 
#>