Expression of genes controlling fat deposition in two genetically diverse beef cattle breeds fed high or low silage diets

Table 4 Loadings for the first three principal components ¹

Variable	PC1	PC2	PC3
TL	0.883	−0.259	0.021
14:0	0.579	−0.681	0.260
16:0	0.274	−0.740	0.526
16:1c9	0.778	−0.319	−0.415
18:0	−0.592	0.060	0.643
18:1c9	0.762	−0.062	−0.327
CLA	0.723	−0.006	−0.492
18:2n-6	−0.784	0.443	−0.051
ACACA	0.799	0.339	0.297
CRAT	0.798	0.348	0.211
CPT1	−0.402	0.464	0.092
LPL	0.836	0.364	0.120
PPARA	0.862	0.212	0.215
PPARG	0.926	0.091	0.188
FABP4	0.853	0.080	−0.152
SCD	0.845	0.341	0.077
SREBF1	0.816	0.270	0.234
Proportion of variance (%)	57.10	13.04	9.43
Cumulative variance (%)	57.10	70.14	79.57