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Table 1 Comparison of microbiota composition in biopsies

From: Development of gut inflammation in mice colonized with mucosa-associated bacteria from patients with ulcerative colitis

Sample 1

Sample 2

P

P (Bonferroni corrected)

Unweighted UniFrac

 Biopsy c

Biopsy a

0.06

0.90

 Biopsy c

Biopsy b

0.00*

≤0.01*

 Biopsy a

Biopsy b

0.00*

≤0.01*

Weighted UniFrac

 Biopsy c

Biopsy a

0.93

1.00

 Biopsy c

Biopsy b

0.42

1.00

 Biopsy a

Biopsy b

0.70

1.00

  1. Biopsies show significant inter-individual differences only in presence of low abundance taxa as showed by qualitative (unweighted UniFrac) but not abundance-aware (weighted UniFrac) quantitative analysis. Statistically significant results are marked with asterisk