A study of the correlation between obesity and intestinal flora in school-age children
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Citation
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Authors
Gao X, Jia R, Xie L, Kuang L, Feng L, Wan C
Journal
Scientific reports
Year
2018
With the improvement of living standards and dietary changes, childhood obesity has increased worldwide. This study aimed to understand the differences of intestinal flora structure between obese and normal children at school-age. Using the next generation sequencing platform, Illumina Miseq, 16S rDNA high-throughput sequencing technology, we analyzed the diversity and relative abundance of intestinal flora in 39 obese and 38 normal control school-age children. First, we categorized gut bacteria on the basis of their Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using the RDP 16s rRNA database in RDP classifier. The alpha (α) diversity was used to measure the diversity within a sample and is calculated as a value for each sample. The beta (β) diversity was used to compare different samples and to measure the dissimilarity between each other sample. Our results indicated that intestinal flora in obese children showed lower diversity than normal controls. Significant differences of relative abundance of intestinal flora were detected at multiple levels of classifications. Identification of intestinal flora with significant difference between obese and normal children may provide important information to uncover the roles of these specific bacteria in the development of obesity and find new strategy to prevent and treat obesity through intervening the intestinal flora.
Experiment 1
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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
- Obesity Adiposis,Adiposity,Obese,Obese (finding),obesity,Obesity (disorder),Obesity [Ambiguous],obesity disease,obesity disorder,Obesity NOS,Obesity, unspecified,Overweight and obesity,Obesity
- Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
- controls
- Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
- obese children
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- School children meeting WHO diagnostic criteria for obesity
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 38
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 39
- Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
- 4 weeks
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
- Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
- 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
- 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
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Claregrieve1 on 2022/06/21
Source: Table2, Table 3
Description: Comparisons of relative abundance of gut bacteria between the obesity and control groups at the level of Phylum & Species
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in obese children
Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks
Signature 2
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Claregrieve1 on 2022/06/21
Curated date: 2021/01/10
Curator: Mst Afroza Parvin
Revision editor(s): Lwaldron, Claregrieve1, WikiWorks
Source: Table2, Table 3, text
Description: Comparisons of relative abundance of gut bacteria between the obesity and control groups at the level of Phylum & Species
Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in obese children
Revision editor(s): Lwaldron, Claregrieve1, WikiWorks
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