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. 2017 Sep 12;8(5):e01237-17. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01237-17

TABLE 3 .

Comparison of pedigree-based and genome-wide measures of kinship to take host genetics into account in a permutational analysis of variance (adonis) on salivary microbiome dissimilarities of 111 individualsa

Variableb Pedigree (kinship2)
Genome-wide SNPs (LDAK)
R2 P R2 P
Sequencing plate 0.028 <0.001 0.028 <0.001
Gender 0.011 0.094 0.011 0.096
Age 0.023 <0.001 0.023 <0.001
MDS1 0.010 0.174 0.011 0.119
MDS2 0.007 0.706 0.010 0.231
MDS3 0.012 0.063 0.011 0.131
MDS4 0.016 0.009 0.011 0.111
MDS5 0.009 0.325 0.007 0.617
Parental household 0.215 <0.001 0.217 <0.001
Residuals 0.670 0.671
Total 1 1
a

Using pedigree information to produce kinship results in a significant association with human genetics via the fourth MDS axis, which is not present using kinships calculated with LDAK based on genome-wide SNPs.

b

The order of variables in the model is given by their order in the table.