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The effect of low-abundance OTU filtering methods on the reliability and variability of microbial composition assessed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
12 Jun 2023
Abstract excerpt
PCR amplicon sequencing may lead to detection of spurious operational taxonomic units (OTUs), inflating estimates of gut microbial diversity. There is no consensus in the analytical approach as to what filtering methods should be applied to remove low-abundance OTUs; moreover, few studies have investigated the reliability of OTU detection within replicates. Here, we investigated the reliability of OTU detection...
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