Figure 5.
Differences in fecal metabolomic profiles and pathways in individuals with DS and non-DS volunteers. (A) Fecal metabolomic profiling by GC-TOF-MS. PCA score plot for the non-DS and DS groups. (B) PLS-DA score plot for the non-DS and DS groups. (C) OPLS-DA score plot for the non-DS and DS groups. (D) S-loading plot based on the OPLS-DA analysis of fecal metabolomics. (E) Heatmap of the relative abundance of significantly different metabolites (VIP > 1.0 and p < 0.05) between the non-DS (HC) and DS groups. (F) Metabolic pathway impact prediction based on the KEGG online database. The -ln(p) values from the pathway enrichment analysis are indicated on the horizontal axis, and the impact values are indicated on the vertical axis. HC, non-DS volunteer (or non-DS group); DS, individual with DS (or DS group).
