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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2017 Jul 31;28(9):959–969. doi: 10.1007/s10552-017-0933-8

Table 2.

Diversity Measures in PDAC, Controls, and IPMN.

PDAC vs Controls PDAC vs IPMN
Diversity
Measures
PDAC (n=40) Controls (n=58) P value IPMN (n=39) P value
NP Shannon
Mean (SD) 5.05 (0.39) 5.14 (0.28) 0.24 5.14 (0.28) 0.23
Median 5.06 5.17 5.15
Range 3.87–5.64 4.44–5.64 4.63–5.67
Inverse Simpson
Mean (SD) 31.75 (15.41) 31.56 (10.15) 0.95 31.56 (10.89) 0.95
Median 31.06 31.56 31.59
Range 3.48–75.94 13.57–56.06 13.67–53.10
Number of OTUs (Richness)
Mean (SD) 580.3 (79.8) 594.6 (87.6) 0.32 598.9 (85.9) 0.40
Median 572.5 596.5 592
Range 443–728 414–837 457–772

PDAC, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; IPMN, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm; SD, standard deviation; NP, non-parametric