| 24-HDRs | 24 h dietary recalls |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| Clr | Centered log-ratio |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FOBT | Fecal occult blood test |
| ITMCTR | International Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Registry |
| LDA | Latent Dirichlet Allocation |
| LMM | Linear mixed-effects models |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
| REDCap | Research Electronic Data Capture |
| SCFAs | Short-chain fatty acids |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SE | Standard Error |
| VinCAPR | Vietnam Colorectal Cancer and Polyps Research |
| VUMC | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| UHGG | Unified Human Gastrointestinal Genome |