Figure 1.
α and β diversity of gut microbiota between patients with liver cirrhosis and healthy controls presented by box plot and PLS-DA. α diversity was illustrated by the (A, C) Ace and (B, D) Chao1 indices. The β diversity was illustrated by the weight_UniFrac distance matrix-based method (E, F). (G) PLS-DA between HC and LC; (H) PLS-DA between HC and CPC; (I) PLS-DA between CPC and DCPC. LC, liver cirrhosis; CPC, compensated cirrhosis; DCPC, decompensated cirrhosis. *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001. NS, not significant.
