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Table 1 Correlations and controlled correlations between the abundance of USiCGs and various sample-specific properties in the stool samples

From: MUSiCC: a marker genes based framework for metagenomic normalization and accurate profiling of gene abundances in the microbiome

Sample-specific property

Correlation with USiCGs abundance

Controlled correlation with USiCGs abundance a

Genome size

-0.82 (P <10-14)

-0.46 (P <10-3)

Mappability

-0.85 (P <10-17)

-0.58 (P <10-6)

Species richness

0.44 (P <10-3)

0.37 (P <0.003)

  1. aPartial correlation, controlling for the other two properties (see Methods).
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