--- title: "Cholesterol levels of TALLYHO and C57BL/6 mice fed three different diets" output: html_document: df_print: paged pdf_document: default word_document: default --- ## Methods TALLYHO ("TH") and C57BL/6 ("B6") mice were fed either Chow, Low-Fat, High-Calorie ("LF"), or High-Fat ("HF") diets from weaning until 16 weeks of age. At 16 weeks, cholesterol levels were measured. ### Statistical Methods Association between Cholesterol and mouse strain, diet, and the interaction between the two was tested with a two-way ANOVA with interaction term. ```{r message=FALSE} library(tidyverse) met <- read_csv("https://denvirlab.marshall.edu/BMR617-2022/data/TH-B6-metabolic.csv") %>% separate(MouseID, into=c("Strain", "Diet", "ID"), sep='-') %>% mutate(Strain = factor(Strain), Diet=factor(Diet)) %>% select(Strain, Diet, Cholesterol) ``` ## Results The data are shown in the following table and graph: ```{r echo=FALSE} met ggplot(met, aes(x=Strain, y=Cholesterol, fill=Diet)) + geom_boxplot(outlier.shape = NA) + geom_point(position=position_jitterdodge(jitter.width = 0.1, dodge.width = 0.75)) + ylab("Cholesterol Level (mg/dl)") + ggtitle("Cholesterol Level by Mouse Strain and Diet") ``` Both Strain and Diet showed an effect on Cholesterol level, with TH mice having higher Cholesterol levels than B6 mice for any diet, and mice fed LF or HF diets having higher Cholesteral levels than mice fed Chow diets for either strain. There was no observed interaction between mouse Strain and Diet; i.e. the effect of diet was not appreciably different in TH mice to that in B6 mice. ```{r} aov.full <- aov(Cholesterol ~ Strain * Diet, data = met) aov.full$coefficients confint(aov.full) summary(aov.full) ```