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Global Enteric Multicenter Study (n = 1,006)

Usage

gems

Format

An rbiom object with 1,006 samples. Includes metadata and taxonomy.

diarrhea -

Case or Control

age -

0 - 4.8 (years old)

country -

Bangladesh, Gambia, Kenya, or Mali

See also

Other Built-In Datasets: babies, hmp50

Examples

gems
#> 
#> ══ Global Enteric Multicenter Study ════════════════════════
#> 
#> Stool samples collected from 1006 participants under the
#> age of 5 from Bangladesh, Gambia, Kenya, and Mali. Includes
#> 492 healthy controls and 514 moderate-to-severe diarrhea
#> (MSD) cases. Original study by Pop et al, 2014
#> (<https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2014-15-6-r76>); dataset
#> retrieved from MicrobiomeDB
#> (<https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx1027>).
#> 
#>    1006 Samples: SRS608640, SRS608279, SRS607780, ... 
#>     767 OTUs:    OTU001, OTU002, OTU003, ..., and OTU767 
#>       8 Ranks:   .otu, Kingdom, Phylum, ..., and Species 
#>       4 Fields:  .sample, diarrhea, age, and country 
#>         Tree:    <absent>
#> 
#> ── 116 - 11k reads/sample ──────────────────── 2021-03-15 ──
#> 
table(gems$metadata$country)
#> 
#> Bangladesh     Gambia      Kenya       Mali 
#>        215        272        307        212