Self-Balance of Intestinal Flora in Spouses of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

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study design

case-control

Citation

PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.

33681234

DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.

10.3389/fmed.2020.00538

URI Uniform resource identifier for web resources.

Authors

Liu Z, Wu Y, Luo Y, Wei S, Lu C, Zhou Y, Wang J, Miao T, Lin H, Zhao Y, Liu Q, Liu Y

Journal

Frontiers in medicine

Year

2020

We sought to characterize and assess differences in compositions of intestinal flora between patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their respective spouses. Eighty volunteers were recruited, including 30 pairs of RA patients and their spouses, and 20 healthy individuals. Fresh stool samples were collected, processed, and 16S rRNA-sequencing was performed. Data were analyzed using an operational taxonomic units-based method, and community structure assessments were performed. Community composition analysis indicated that there were similar intestinal microbiota structures in RA and in their respective spouses. Gut microbiota in spouses of RA were different from those of the healthy controls group, but these differences were not significant. We found that Blautia spp. and Streptococcus spp. were two most associated species in RA and these taxa were significantly higher in comparison to healthy controls. In contrast, our findings suggested that Roseburia spp. and Lachnoclostridium spp. were significantly lower in the RA in comparison to healthy controls. In conclusion, RA patients shared similar gut microbiota pattern with their spouses which were different from healthy individuals. The findings suggest that disturbance of the balance of gut microbiota may play an important role in the dynamics of pathogenesis of RA.

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Subjects

Location of subjects: China

Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled (if applicable): 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

Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology: rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis or polyarthritis, rheumatic,arthritis or polyarthritis, rheumatic,Arthritis, Rheumatoid,arthritis, rheumatoid,atrophic Arthritis,atrophic arthritis,autoimmune arthritis,Chronic rheumatic arthritis,Proliferative arthritis,RA,RA - Rheumatoid arthritis,RhA - Rheumatoid arthritis,Rheumatic gout,rheumatoid arthritis,Rheumatoid arthritis (disorder),Rheumatoid arthritis NOS,Rheumatoid arthritis NOS (disorder),rheumatoid arthritis, susceptibility to,Rheumatoid disease

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies: healthy controls
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies: rheumatoid arthritis patient
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group: rheumatoid arthritis patient
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group: 20
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group: 30
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any): Potential volunteer enrolees (including patients and or healthy individuals) were excluded from this study if having: (1) ingested antibiotics in the last 6 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

Statistical test: LEfSe

Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any): .05
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?: Yes
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool: 2

Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study: sex, age

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: decreased

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