TABLE 2.
Ethnic background of study participants included in either microbiome or immune analysis
| Category | Belgium |
Canada |
Ecuador |
South Africa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | No. (%) | Description | No. (%) | Description | No. (%) | Description | No. (%) | |
| Ethnic background | African | 6 (28.6) | Chinese | 3 (9.1) | Latin American | 43 (100) | African | 4 (19.0) |
| African/Arab | 2 (9.5) | Filipino | 1 (3.0) | Mixed race | 16 (76.2) | |||
| Arab | 7 (33.3) | Latin American | 3 (9.1) | White-Caucasian | 1 (4.8) | |||
| Metis/White-Caucasian/Arab | 1 (4.8) | White-Caucasian | 21 (63.6) | |||||
| South Asian | 1 (4.8) | White-Caucasian/Chinese | 3 (9.1) | |||||
| White-Caucasian | 1 (4.8) | White-Caucasian/Filipino | 1 (3.0) | |||||
| White-Caucasian/Arab | 1 (4.8) | White-Caucasian/South Asian | 1 (3.0) | |||||
| Unknown | 2 (9.5) | |||||||
| Country of birth | Belgium | 13 (61.9) | Canada | 33 (100) | Ecuador | 43 (100) | South Africa | 21 (100) |
| Congo | 2 (9.5) | |||||||
| Germany | 1 (4.8) | |||||||
| Mauritania | 1 (4.8) | |||||||
| Morocco | 3 (14.3) | |||||||
| Uganda | 1 (4.8) | |||||||