Table 2.
PERMANOVA of oral microbial community composition in healthy and tonsillitis cohorts
Sums of squares | Mean squares | F model | R2 | p-value | |
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Disease state | 8485 | 8484.6 | 4.032 | 0.019 | < 0.001 |
Smoking | 7360 | 3680.0 | 1.749 | 0.016 | < 0.001 |
Age | 3743 | 3743.4 | 1.779 | 0.008 | < 0.001 |
Gender | 3015 | 3014.8 | 1.433 | 0.007 | 0.0110 |
Antibiotics | 2236 | 2236.4 | 1.063 | 0.005 | 0.3263 |
Residuals | 423,001 | 2104.5 | 0.945 |