Figure 3.
Network analysis of fecal samples from MS patients and controls, based on 16S rRNA taxonomic representation. Distribution of sub-networks in MS patients (Panel A) and Controls (Panel B), and comparison of node (taxa) connectivity in the microbial networks (Panel C). There was significantly lower connectivity in samples from MS patients than from controls, in two-sided tests of degree (p = 0.02), with borderline differences in betweenness (p = 0.09) network characteristics.