Table 5.

Significant Pearson’s Correlations^§ between the abundance of duodenum bacteria species and plasma lipid parameters^†.

OTUs	Total Chol	HDL	LDL	LDL/HDL
Firmicutes
Uncl. Lactobacillus (NCR39)				0.608*
Uncl. Ruminococcus (130103)			0.592*
Blautia producta (158211)	0.609*		0.601*
Uncl. Lachnospiraceae (158971)		0.578*
Uncl. Ruminococcaceae (157804)			0.675*
Uncl. Ruminococcaceae (158217)				0.647*
Uncl. Ruminococcaceae (157546)				−0.588*
Uncl. Ruminococcaceae (313037)	0.766**		0.744**	0.603*
Uncl. Collinsella (NCR69)	0.769**		0.748**	0.620*
Uncl. Coprobacillaceae (592616)	0.681*
Proteobacteria
Uncl. Afipia (92573)				−0.653*
Uncl. Escherichia (114510)	0.683*		0.693*	0.725**
Tenericutes
Uncl. RF39 (235065)				−0.609*

^†RES and SUS fed the cholesterol diet; N = 12.

^§After elimination of significant correlations due to a single outlier.

*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01.