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. 2020 Feb 13;111(6):1226–1234. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa015

TABLE 4.

Abundance of bacterial genera associated with plasma TMAO among 1653 participants in the Adiposity Phenotype Study1

Phylum; class; order; family; genus Prevalence β (SE) P value Q value
Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Prevotellaceae; Prevotella 7 0.54 0.992 (0.152) <0.001 <0.001
Firmicutes; Negativicutes; Selenomonadales; Veillonellaceae; Mitsuokella 0.23 1.444 (0.232) <0.001 <0.001
Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Prevotellaceae; Prevotella 2 0.58 0.937 (0.168) <0.001 <0.001
Fusobacteria; Fusobacteriia; Fusobacteriales; Fusobacteriaceae; Fusobacterium 0.53 0.931 (0.189) <0.001 <0.001
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Ruminococcaceae UCG-011 0.39 −0.528 (0.120) <0.001 <0.001
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Ruminococcaceae; Ruminococcaceae NK4A214 group 0.86 0.330 (0.083) <0.001 0.002
Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidia; Bacteroidales; Prevotellaceae; uncultured 0.27 1.196 (0.353) 0.001 0.014
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Lachnospiraceae; [Ruminococcus] torques group 1.00 0.085 (0.026) 0.001 0.016
Proteobacteria; Deltaroteobacteria; Desulfovibrionales; Desulfovibrionaceae; Bilophila 0.60 0.237 (0.072) 0.001 0.016
Proteobacteria; Deltaroteobacteria; Desulfovibrionales; Desulfovibrionaceae; Desulfovibrio 0.26 0.890 (0.268) 0.001 0.016
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Lachnospiraceae; [Bacteroides] pectinophilus group 0.33 0.555 (0.174) 0.001 0.018
Firmicutes; Clostridia; Clostridiales; Lachnospiraceae; Eisenbergiella 0.69 0.346 (0.114) 0.002 0.028
Proteobacteria; Alpharoteobacteria; Rhodospirillales; uncultured; gut metagenome 0.56 0.455 (0.155) 0.003 0.037
1

Parameters derived from the count model from hurdle regression with a negative binomial distribution or standard negative binomial regression, adjusted for age, sex, race-ethnicity, physical activity, percentage body fat, laboratory batch, and total sample sequence count. All taxa with false discovery rate–adjusted Q < 0.05 are included in the table. Prevalence indicates proportion of participants with each genus. TMAO, trimethylamine N-oxide.