Metagenomic Analysis Reveals the Heterogeneity of Conjunctival Microbiota Dysbiosis in Dry Eye Disease/Experiment 6
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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
- Bulbar conjunctiva Ocular conjunctiva,Bulbar conjunctiva,bulbar conjunctiva
- Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
- Dry eye syndrome dry eye,Dry Eye Syndrome,dry eye syndrome,Dry Eye Syndromes,dry eye(s),eye(s), dry,KCS,Keraconjunctivitis sicca,Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca,Keratoconjunctivitis sicca,keratoconjunctivitis sicca,Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (disorder),sicca, keratoconjunctivitis,Tear film insufficiency,tear film insufficiency,Dry eye syndrome
- 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
- Dry Eye
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- Patients with Dry eye disease
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 48
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 47
- Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
- 90 days prior to study enrollment
Lab analysis
- Sequencing type
- WMS
- 16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
- Not specified
- 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
- MaAsLin2
- Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
- 0.05
- Confounders controlled for Confounding factors that have been accounted for by stratification or model adjustment
- age, sex
Alpha Diversity
- Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
- decreased
Signature 1
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2023-12-23
Source: Supp table 4
Description: Comparison between dry eye group and healthy group showing species with polarized abundance (decreased abundance) in dry eye samples
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Dry Eye
Revision editor(s): Mary Bearkland, ChiomaBlessing
