TABLE 6.

Canonical correlation results for the pairwise comparisons among most abundant bacterial genera in infant feces, infant oral, maternal feces, maternal oral, and milk samples¹

Relations	Axis	Canonical correlation	Proportion of variability explained	Cumulative variability explained	P value
Milk: infant feces (all data)	1	0.87	0.29	0.29	< 0.0001
	2	0.79	0.16	0.46	0.0045
Milk: infant feces (no outlier)	1	0.80	0.22	0.22	0.0107
Milk: infant oral (all data)	1	0.95	0.31	0.31	< 0.0001
	2	0.93	0.23	0.54	< 0.0001
	3	0.90	0.14	0.67	< 0.0001
	4	0.86	0.10	0.77	< 0.0001
	5	0.81	0.07	0.84	< 0.0001
	6	0.73	0.04	0.88	< 0.0001
	7	0.70	0.03	0.91	0.0026
Milk: infant oral (no outlier)	1	0.95	0.33	0.33	< 0.0001
	2	0.93	0.23	0.55	< 0.0001
	3	0.88	0.13	0.68	< 0.0001
	4	0.83	0.08	0.76	< 0.0001
	5	0.76	0.05	0.82	< 0.0001
	6	0.75	0.05	0.87	< 0.0001
	7	0.66	0.03	0.90	0.0122
Milk: maternal feces	1	0.72	0.22	0.22	0.0083
Milk: maternal oral	1	0.62	0.24	0.24	0.33
Infant feces: infant oral (all data)	1	0.86	0.30	0.30	0.0043
Infant feces: infant oral (no outlier)	1	0.82	0.24	0.24	0.10
Infant feces: maternal feces	1	0.79	0.23	0.23	< 0.0001
	2	0.74	0.17	0.40	0.0019
Infant feces: maternal oral	1	0.72	0.27	0.27	0.0005
Infant oral: maternal feces (all data)	1	0.80	0.32	0.32	<0.0001
Infant oral: maternal feces (no outlier)	1	0.67	0.19	0.19	0.15
Infant oral: maternal oral	1	0.65	0.25	0.25	0.18
Maternal feces: maternal oral	1	0.64	0.25	0.25	< 0.0001
	2	0.56	0.16	0.41	< 0.0004
	3	0.55	0.16	0.57	0.0098

¹Milk: infant feces, n = 121 pairs; milk: infant oral, n = 118 pairs; milk: maternal feces, n = 128 pairs; milk: maternal oral, n = 142 pairs; infant feces: infant oral, n = 121 pairs; infant feces: maternal feces, n = 131 pairs; infant feces: maternal oral, n = 144 pairs; infant oral: maternal feces, n = 136 pairs; infant oral: maternal oral, n = 147 pairs; maternal feces: maternal oral, n = 159 pairs.