Barely Significant
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Drinking alcohol is associated with variation in the human oral microbiome in a large study of American adults.

Microbiome · 2018 · PMC5914044 · PMID 29685174

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marginal significancep = 0.059so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
Similarly, in covariate-adjusted PERMANOVA analysis of the unweighted UniFrac distance, wine drinkers differed from non-drinkers with marginal significance ( p = 0.059), but liquor drinkers or beer drinkers did not ( p = 0.73 and p = 0.59).

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