Table 3.
Hospital discharge (T2): differences in microbial taxa and diversity measures in females with AN (n=10) vs. healthy comparison group (n=12)
| Taxonomic/diversity level |
Classification | Test statistic |
p | FDR corrected p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phylum | Bacteroidetes | 2.08 | 0.038 | 0.11 |
| Firmicutes | −2.08 | 0.038 | 0.11 | |
| Class | Bacteroidia | 2.08 | 0.038 | 0.35 |
| Order | Bacteroidales | 2.08 | 0.038 | 0.42 |
| Family | Porphyromonadaceae | 2.74 | 0.006 | 0.15 |
| Genus | Coribacteriales_genus | 4.29 | <0.0001 | 0.004 |
| Parabacteroides | 2.74 | 0.006 | 0.065 | |
| Ruminococcaceae_genus | −3.07 | 0.002 | 0.047 | |
| Alpha diversity | # of observed species | −2.80 | 0.005 | |
| Chao-1 estimator | −2.41 | 0.016 | ||
FDR = false discovery rate
Alpha = 0.05; FDR level = 0.1
Differences in alpha diversity, beta diversity, and taxa abundance of bacterial groups were compared with two-tailed Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests. A global multivariate test (59) was used for alpha diversity, beta diversity, and abundance per taxonomic level.