Microbial imbalance in Chinese children with diarrhea or constipation/Experiment 5

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-2

Curated date: 2025/04/30

Curator: Ameenatoloko

Revision editor(s): Ameenatoloko

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
Constipation Constipation,Costiveness,Dyschezia,constipation
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
Children with constipation (CC)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Children with constipation are at risk of various health issues, including mental, behavioral, social, and physical challenges.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
398
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
129
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
1 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

Alpha Diversity

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

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-2

Curated date: 2025/04/30

Curator: Ameenatoloko

Revision editor(s): Ameenatoloko

Source: Fig. S3, Table S7

Description: A cladogram made by LEfSe demonstrates different bacterial taxa between the CC and HC groups.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Children with constipation (CC)

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Anaerostipes
Bacteroides ovatus
Bifidobacterium dentium
Candidatus Fimenecus
Christensenellaceae
Christensenellales
Clostridiales bacterium UBA1381
Clostridium sp. CAG:138
Coriobacteriales
Coriobacteriia
Desulfovibrionaceae
Desulfovibrionales
Desulfovibrionia
Eubacteriales
Faecalibacterium
Faecalibacterium sp. CAG:74
Fusicatenibacter
Lawsonibacter
Marinifilaceae
Parabacteroides
Ruminococcus
Ruminococcus bicirculans (ex Liu et al. 2021)
Tannerellaceae
Fimenecus sp.000432435Fimenecus sp.000432435

Revision editor(s): Ameenatoloko

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by KateRasheed on 2025-5-2

Curated date: 2025/04/30

Curator: Ameenatoloko

Revision editor(s): Ameenatoloko, KateRasheed

Source: Fig. S3, Table S7

Description: A cladogram made by LEfSe demonstrates different bacterial taxa between the CC and HC groups.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Children with constipation (CC)

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Agathobacter rectalis
Bacilli
Bacteroides uniformis
Clostridium
Clostridium neonatale
Clostridium perfringens
Eubacteriales
Gammaproteobacteria
Micrococcaceae
Rothia
Clostridiaceae_222000Clostridiaceae_222000
Enterobacterales_A_737866Enterobacterales_A_737866
Agathobacter_164117Agathobacter_164117
Rothia sp. HMSC078H08

Revision editor(s): Ameenatoloko, KateRasheed