TABLE 2.
Comparison of α-diversity indices between tumor and matched normal tissues.
| Non-tumor | Tumor | *P-value | |
| Phylum | |||
| Simpson | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.005 |
| Inverse Simpson | 3.15 | 2.90 | 0.005 |
| Shannon | 1.27 | 1.17 | 0.011 |
| OBS | 7.50 | 6.88 | 0.135 |
| Chao2 | 8.56 | 7.61 | 0.173 |
| seChao2 | 1.67 | 1.30 | 0.324 |
| Family | |||
| Simpson | 0.89 | 0.83 | 0.340 |
| Inverse Simpson | 12.01 | 11.58 | 0.548 |
| Shannon | 2.79 | 2.61 | 0.247 |
| OBS | 38.15 | 34.27 | 0.083 |
| Chao2 | 46.25 | 42.24 | 0.105 |
| seChao2 | 6.68 | 6.59 | 0.641 |
| Genus | |||
| Simpson | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.269 |
| Inverse Simpson | 12.55 | 12.46 | 0.617 |
| Shannon | 2.99 | 2.86 | 0.173 |
| OBS | 46.62 | 40.12 | 0.012 |
| Chao2 | 56.45 | 49.84 | 0.049 |
| seChao2 | 7.19 | 7.18 | 0.980 |
*P-values are from Wilcoxon test for paired samples. Bold values indicate statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level.