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. 2016 May 26;11(5):e0154090. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154090

Table 1. Gender differences in the gut microbiota by BMI at genus level.

Men Women
BMI < 30 30 ≤ BMI ≤ 33 BMI > 33 P-value Q-value BMI < 30 30 ≤ BMI ≤ 33 BMI > 33 P-value Q-value
Bacteroides 0.232 ± 0.040 0.151 ± 0.025 0.019 ± 0.005 <0.001 <0.001 0.179 ± 0.039 0.165 ± 0.045 0.134 ± 0.022 0.919 0.952
Dialister 0.019 ± 0.004 0.018 ± 0.009 0.004 ± 0.002 0.008 0.053 0.023 ± 0.006 0.055 ± 0.015 0.007 ± 0.003 0.018 0.333
Prevotella 0.014 ± 0.008 0.014 ± 0.004 0.031 ± 0.012 0.712 0.798 0.013 ± 0.005 0.010 ± 0.004 0.018 ± 0.007 0.893 0.952
Phascolarctobacterium 0.012 ± 0.004 0.017 ± 0.003 0.020 ± 0.005 0.229 0.435 0.024 ± 0.005 0.011 ± 0.003 0.022 ± 0.006 0.181 0.619
Anaerostipes 0.002 ± 0.001 0.001 ± 0.000 0.000 ± 0.000 0.047 0.226 0.002 ± 0.001 0.001 ± 0.000 0.003 ± 0.001 0.854 0.952
Butyricimonas 0.006 ± 0.001 0.004 ± 0.001 0.005 ± 0.001 0.171 0.406 0.003 ± 0.001 0.002 ± 0.000 0.003 ± 0.001 0.228 0.619
Clostridium 0.016 ± 0.011 0.004 ± 0.001 0.004 ± 0.001 0.960 0.960 0.002 ± 0.000 0.004 ± 0.001 0.014 ± 0.008 0.732 0.952
Bilophila 0.005 ± 0.001 0.003 ± 0.001 0.003 ± 0.001 0.756 0.798 0.011 ± 0.003 0.007 ± 0.002 0.005 ± 0.001 0.586 0.952
Roseburia 0.010 ± 0.002 0.015 ± 0.005 0.006 ± 0.001 0.259 0.448 0.009 ± 0.002 0.007 ± 0.002 0.007 ± 0.002 0.797 0.952
Odoribacter 0.003 ± 0.001 0.003 ± 0.000 0.003 ± 0.001 0.145 0.393 0.002 ± 0.001 0.002 ± 0.000 0.001 ± 0.000 0.115 0.619
Streptococcus 0.021 ± 0.005 0.018 ± 0.012 0.016 ± 0.006 0.117 0.369 0.009 ± 0.003 0.012 ± 0.004 0.012 ± 0.002 0.624 0.952
Dorea 0.002 ± 0.000 0.005 ± 0.002 0.002 ± 0.001 0.202 0.426 0.009 ± 0.004 0.002 ± 0.001 0.002 ± 0.001 0.228 0.619
Sutterella 0.016 ± 0.003 0.016 ± 0.003 0.020 ± 0.003 0.601 0.798 0.015 ± 0.005 0.026 ± 0.009 0.017 ± 0.004 0.744 0.952
Ruminococcus 0.012 ± 0.003 0.021 ± 0.006 0.019 ± 0.005 0.589 0.798 0.011 ± 0.002 0.014 ± 0.007 0.024 ± 0.006 0.186 0.619
Parabacteroides 0.012 ± 0.002 0.017 ± 0.005 0.018 ± 0.006 0.679 0.798 0.014 ± 0.003 0.023 ± 0.006 0.022 ± 0.006 0.641 0.952
Oscillospira 0.012 ± 0.003 0.010 ± 0.001 0.010 ± 0.002 0.732 0.798 0.018 ± 0.003 0.010 ± 0.001 0.027 ± 0.009 0.042 0.403
Lachnospira 0.025 ± 0.007 0.011 ± 0.004 0.017 ± 0.006 0.076 0.287 0.016 ± 0.006 0.017 ± 0.006 0.023 ± 0.006 0.541 0.952
Coprococcus 0.009 ± 0.003 0.009 ± 0.001 0.011 ± 0.003 0.494 0.781 0.008 ± 0.002 0.005 ± 0.001 0.006 ± 0.001 0.952 0.952
Blautia 0.003 ± 0.001 0.003 ± 0.001 0.001 ± 0.000 0.007 0.053 0.004 ± 0.002 0.002 ± 0.000 0.002 ± 0.000 0.726 0.952

BMI: body mass index. Rows: comparison of the abundance of the different bacterial genera between different BMI ranges in men and women together and in men and women separately by the Kruskal-Wallis test. Q-value: False Discovery Rate (FDR) using Benjamini and Hochberg method.