Reliability of a participant-friendly fecal collection method for microbiome analyses: a step towards large sample size investigation.

BMC Microbiol · 2018 · PMC6127955 · PMID 30189859

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.045actually significant

However, the Bonferroni-adjusted p -value did not reach statistical significance for O7d compared to Fresh, except for Cyanobacteria ( p = 0.045).

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showed a trendno p-value reported

Phylum relative abundance Samples collected with OMNIgene•GUT (O24h & O7d) showed a trend towards higher phylum relative abundance of Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, Proteobacteria and lower of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria compared to the Fresh method (Fig. 2 and Table 3 ).

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