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. 2018 Jan 23;118(4):471–479. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2017.435

Table 2. IgA-coated and IgA-noncoated taxa potentially associated with postmenopausal breast cancer.

  IgA-coated cancer associations
IgA-coated taxon Mean Median Carriage Wald P-value Permutation P-value
Proteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Alcaligenaceae; Parasutterella; excrementihominis 0.002 0.000 0.396 0.001 0.001
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Oscillibacter 0.006 0.003 0.917 0.033 0.003
Proteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Alcaligenaceae; Parasutterella 0.002 0.000 0.427 0.009 0.007
  IgA-noncoated cancer associations
IgA-noncoated taxon Mean Median Carriage Wald P-value Permutation P-value
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Ruminococcus 0.038 0.020 0.833 0.004 0.001
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae_1; Clostridium; disporicum 0.001 0.000 0.167 0.006 0.002
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae_1 0.001 0.000 0.271 0.004 0.003
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Clostridiaceae_1; Clostridium 0.001 0.000 0.260 0.007 0.005
Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Rikenellaceae; Alistipes; indistinctus 0.001 0.000 0.490 0.009 0.009
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Ruminococcus; bromii 0.021 0.001 0.594 0.010 0.009
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Eubacterium; siraeum 0.005 0.001 0.594 0.011 0.010

Abbreviation: IgA=immunoglobulin A.