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Testing in Microbiome-Profiling Studies with MiRKAT, the Microbiome Regression-Based Kernel Association Test.
American journal of human genetics - 7 May 2015
Zhao Ni, Chen Jun, Carroll Ian M, Ringel-Kulka Tamar, Epstein Michael P, Zhou Hua, Zhou Jin J, Ringel Yehuda, Li Hongzhe, Wu Michael C
Abstract excerpt
High-throughput sequencing technology has enabled population-based studies of the role of the human microbiome in disease etiology and exposure response. Distance-based analysis is a popular strategy for evaluating the overall association between microbiome diversity and outcome, wherein the phylogenetic distance between individuals' microbiome profiles is computed and tested for association via permutation....
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