Toxic metals impact gut microbiota and metabolic risk in five African-origin populations/Experiment 1
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Curated date: 2025/05/05
Curator: PreciousChijioke
Revision editor(s): Chloe, Anne-mariesharp, PreciousChijioke
Subjects
- Location of subjects
- Ghana
- Jamaica
- Seychelles
- South Africa
- United States of America
- Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
- Homo sapiens
- Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
- Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces
- Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
- Metabolic toxicity Metabolic toxicity,metabolic toxicity
- Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
- Low lead exposure
- Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
- High lead exposure
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- Participants with high lead exposure
- Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
- 3 months
Lab analysis
- Sequencing type
- 16S
- 16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
- V4
- Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
- Illumina
Statistical Analysis
- Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
- relative abundances
- Statistical test
- LEfSe
- Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
- 0.05
- MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
- No
- LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
- 3
Signature 1
Needs review
Source: Figure 2A
Description: Differential taxa by metal exposure.
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in High lead exposure
Revision editor(s): Chloe, Anne-mariesharp
