Gut Microbiota May Play a Significant Role in the Pathogenesis of Graves' Disease/Experiment 1

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Curated date: 2025/07/24

Curator: Aleru Divine

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine

Subjects

Location of subjects
China
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
Graves disease Basedow disease,Basedow's disease,exophthalmic goiter,Flajani-Basedow-Graves disease,grave's disease,Graves disease,Graves' disease,Graves' hyperthyroidism,parry disease,toxic diffuse goiter,graves disease
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Healthy controls (HC)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Graves’ disease (GD)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Graves’ disease (GD) patients (12 males, 33 females, ages 16–65 years, median age 37) recruited from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital from January to June 2019.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
59
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
45
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
One month

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V3-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
Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
age, sex

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
decreased
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
decreased
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
increased
Richness Number of species
decreased

Signature 1

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Curated date: 2025/07/24

Curator: Aleru Divine

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine

Source: Figure 3C and 3D

Description: The LEfSe was used to identify the species that significantly differed between GD patients and HC at the phylum and genus levels. Only taxa meeting a significant LDA threshold value of >3 and p < 0.05 are shown.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Graves’ disease (GD)

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Bacteroidota
Bacteroides
Lactobacillus

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Signature 2

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/07/24

Curator: Aleru Divine

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine

Source: Figure 3C and 3D

Description: The LEfSe was used to identify the species that significantly differed between GD patients and HC at the phylum and genus levels. Only taxa meeting a significant LDA threshold value of >3 and p < 0.05 are shown.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Graves’ disease (GD)

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Bacillota
Blautia
Anaerobutyricum hallii
Anaerostipes
Dorea
unclassified Peptostreptococcaceae
Collinsella
[Ruminococcus] torques
Oscillospiraceae UCG 002Oscillospiraceae UCG 002
Oscillospiraceae UCG 013Oscillospiraceae UCG 013
Clostridium
Butyricicoccus
Eubacterium ventriosum
Christensenellaceae R7 groupChristensenellaceae R7 group
Coprococcus
Ruminococcus gauvreauii
Muribaculaceae

Revision editor(s): Aleru Divine