marginally significantP < 0.06
While the presence of adenoma or carcinoma did not seem to affect the correlation between microbial PCo1 and metabolite PC1, females showed a higher microbial PCo1-metabolite PC1 correlation than males (Spearman’s ρ = −0.772, P < 10 −19 for females; Spearman’s ρ = −0.643, P < 10 −17 for males; difference was marginally significant when tested using Fisher r -to- z transformation, P < 0.06).