Fecal Microbiota Taxonomic Shifts in Chinese Multiple Myeloma Patients Analyzed by Quantitative Polimerase Chain Reaction (QPCR) and 16S rRNA High-Throughput Sequencing
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- Retracted paper
- Contamination issues suspected
- Batch effect issues suspected
- Uncontrolled confounding suspected
- Results are suspect (various reasons)
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Experiment 1
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
- Multiple myeloma Al amyloidosis,amyloidosis, systemic,Kahler disease,Kahler's disease,medullary plasmacytoma,multiple myeloma,multiple myeloma/plasma cell myeloma,myeloid neoplasm of plasma cell,myeloma,myeloma - multiple,myeloma, multiple,myeloma, plasma cell, malignant,myelomatosis,plasma cell myeloid neoplasm,plasma cell myeloma,Multiple myeloma
- Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
- healthy control
- Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
- Multiple Myeloma patient
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- patient diagnosis with multiple myeloma and no other disease validated to affect intestinal microbial including digestive disease like liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and irritable bowel syndrome; systemic disease like diabetes and hypertension and thyroid disease; no treatment including antibiotics, chemotherapy, plasma exchange or bone marrow transplant; no cold, fever or other infections within 3 months before sampling with administrated antibacterial drugs, gastrointestinal motility drugs or micro-ecological conditioning agents like eating and living habit change 1 week before sampling
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 17
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 40
- 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
- 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).
- raw counts
- Statistical test
- T-Test
- 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
Alpha Diversity
- Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
- decreased
- Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
- unchanged
Signature 1
Source: Table 6 & text
Description: Comparison of Intestinal Microbial between the Multiple Myeloma group and healthy control at the phylum level
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Pseudomonadota |
Signature 2
Source: Table 6 & text
Description: Comparison of Intestinal Microbial between the Multiple Myeloma group and healthy control at the phylum level
Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Actinomycetota |
Experiment 2
Subjects
Lab analysis
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)
- 2
- LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
- 2
Alpha Diversity
- Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
- decreased
- Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
- unchanged
Signature 1
Source: Figure 3a
Description: Intestinal Microbial taxonomic differences were detected based on Operational Taxonomic Unit between Multiple Myeloma group and healthy controls
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Bacteroidaceae | ||
Bacteroides | ||
Pseudomonadota | ||
Turicibacter | ||
Cronobacter | ||
Cronobacter sakazakii |
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Signature 2
Source: Figure 3a
Description: Intestinal Microbial taxonomic differences were detected based on Operational Taxonomic Unit between Multiple Myeloma group and healthy controls
Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Experiment 3
Subjects
Lab analysis
Statistical Analysis
- Statistical test
- Metastats
- Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
- 0.05
- LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
- Not specified
Signature 1
Source: Table 7 and text
Description: Genus with significant difference between Multiple Myeloma group and healthy control group was selected, followed by ordering according to the abundance in the intestinal tract of MM patients
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Bacteroides | ||
Faecalibacterium | ||
Roseburia | ||
Veillonella | ||
Acidaminococcus | ||
Dielma | ||
Butyrivibrio | ||
Nicotiana otophora | ||
Allobaculum |
Signature 2
Source: Table 7 & text
Description: Genus with significant difference between Multiple Myeloma group and healthy control group was selected, followed by ordering according to the abundance in the intestinal tract of MM patients
Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Peptoclostridium |
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Experiment 4
Subjects
- Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
- healthy relatives control
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 21
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 21
Lab analysis
- Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
- RT-qPCR
Statistical Analysis
Signature 1
Source: Table 8 and text
Description: Intestinal Microbial detection in Multiple Myeloma patients and their family members using Quantitative Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Multiple Myeloma patient
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa | ||
[Clostridium] leptum |