Article
Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances
17 Jun 2012
Abstract excerpt
MOTIVATION: The human microbiome plays an important role in human disease and health. Identification of factors that affect the microbiome composition can provide insights into disease mechanism as well as suggest ways to modulate the microbiome composition for therapeutical purposes. Distance-based statistical tests have been applied to test the association of microbiome composition with environmental or...
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