Comparison study of differential abundance testing methods using two large Parkinson disease gut microbiome datasets derived from 16S amplicon sequencing

Abstract

Testing for differential abundance of microbes in disease is a common practice in microbiome studies. Numerous differential abundance (DA) testing methods exist and range from traditional statistical tests to methods designed for microbiome data. Comparison studies of DA testing methods have been performed, but none performed on microbiome datasets collected for the study of real, complex disease. Due to this, DA testing was performed here using various DA methods in two large, uniformly collected gut microbiome datasets on Parkinson disease (PD), and their results compared.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 25, 2021
Source ID
10.1186/s12859-021-04193-6

Entities

People

  • Zachary D Wallen

Organizations

  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • National Institutes of Health
  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Microbial Pathology
  • Neurodegenerative Parkinson's Disease and Rickettsial Disease handbook, including the data level of dopamine, BC, neurons, and PD.