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Table 1 Description of the TwinsUK discovery sample

From: Heritable components of the human fecal microbiome are associated with visceral fat

 

Full dataseta

Microbiome subsetb

No. of samples

3666

1313

 Sex

  

 Female

3296

1266

 Male

370

47

 Zygosity

  

 MZ

2088

496

 DZ

1578

594

 Unrelated

0

223

Age (mean (range))

63 (32–87)

63 (32–87)

BMI (mean (range))

26.1 (15.7–49.9)

26.1 (16.2–45.9)

 Ethnicity

  

 European

3511

1295

 Other

102

9

 Unknown

53

8

  1. aSummaries are shown for both the extended dataset of 3666 twins used in the phenotype heritability analyses and for the microbiome sample subset of 1313 individuals. bAdditional file 1: Table S7 includes extended descriptions of the microbiome data subset