Table 2. Metabolites with a statistically significant difference in abundance between the healthy and alcoholic cohorts (p<0.05; p<the Benjamini-Hochberg critical value at a false discovery rate of 0.15).
| Endoscopy Collected Fecal Samples | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| increased in alcoholics | p value | fold change | frequency in Healthy (of 18) | frequency in Alcoholic (of 16) | area under ROC curve |
| Tetradecane | 0.013 | 4.07 | 15 | 13 | 0.68 |
| decreased in alcoholics | |||||
| 2-Tetradecen-1-ol | 0.000 | 2.52 | 17 | 14 | 0.83 |
| 1-Undecanol | 0.025 | 2.14 | 15 | 12 | 0.67 |
| Propanoic acid | 0.029 | 2.32 | 18 | 16 | 0.67 |
| Cyclopropane, nonyl- | 0.012 | 2.34 | 14 | 12 | 0.70 |
| 6-Pentadecen-1-ol | 0.002 | 8.48 | 14 | 11 | 0.85 |
| 8-Tetradecen-1-yl acetate | 0.008 | 2.33 | 14 | 7 | 0.77 |
| 1,15-Pentadecanediol | 0.016 | 3.09 | 16 | 9 | 0.72 |
| Eicosen-1-ol | 0.035 | 3.98 | 14 | 10 | 0.74 |