Microbiota composition in bilateral healthy breast tissue and breast tumors/Experiment 1

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Needs review

Curated date: 2025/06/18

Curator: Ecsharp

Revision editor(s): Ecsharp

Subjects

Location of subjects
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
Breast Mamma,Mammary part of chest,Mammary region,Breast,breast
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Breast cancer breast cancer,breast tumor,cancer of breast,malignant breast neoplasm,malignant breast tumor,malignant neoplasm of breast,malignant neoplasm of the breast,malignant tumor of breast,malignant tumor of the breast,mammary cancer,mammary neoplasm,mammary tumor,primary breast cancer,Breast cancer
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Bilateral Normal Breast Tissue
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Tumor Breast Tissue
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Breast cancer tumor tissue samples from white, non-Hispanic women, obtained through the University of Florida (UF) Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) Biorepository
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
36
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
10

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V1-V2
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).
raw counts
Statistical test
DESeq2
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)?
Yes

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
decreased

Signature 1

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/06/18

Curator: Ecsharp

Revision editor(s): Ecsharp

Source: Figure 4

Description: Significantly different taxa identified by differential abundance between normal and tumor tissue. All OTUs shown were found to be statistically significant in terms of differential abundance using Wald’s test with Benjamini–Hochberg adjustment in the DESeq2 package (DESeq function).

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Tumor Breast Tissue

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Akkermansia
Bacteroides
Butyricimonas
Faecalibacterium
Holdemania
Oscillospira
Parabacteroides
Rothia
Ruminococcus
Staphylococcus
Sutterella
Varibaculum

Revision editor(s): Ecsharp

Signature 2

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/06/18

Curator: Ecsharp

Revision editor(s): Ecsharp

Source: Figure 4

Description: Significantly different taxa identified by differential abundance between normal and tumor tissue. All OTUs shown were found to be statistically significant in terms of differential abundance using Wald’s test with Benjamini–Hochberg adjustment in the DESeq2 package (DESeq function).

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Tumor Breast Tissue

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Eubacterium
Prevotella
Acinetobacter
Anaerococcus
Brevibacillus
Collinsella
Comamonas
Corynebacterium
Flavobacterium
Limnohabitans
Phascolarctobacterium
Pseudomonas
Pyramidobacter
Succinivibrio
Sutterella
Staphylococcus
Bacteroides

Revision editor(s): Ecsharp