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Fig. 4 | Microbiome

Fig. 4

From: Extending colonic mucosal microbiome analysis—assessment of colonic lavage as a proxy for endoscopic colonic biopsies

Fig. 4

Beta diversity comparisons. Clustering of samples according to sample type (colonic biopsy and lavage) by PCoA, based on (a) Jaccard and (b) Yue & Clayton similarity distances, and box plots of paired samples’ similarity distances, based on (c) Jaccard and (d) Yue & Clayton. Within the PCoA plots, loadings of the three axes sum up to 9.35 and 24.86%. Colonic biopsy and lavage samples from the same individual are connected together. Each subject is depicted in a unique colour, and colonic biopsy points are depicted as triangles whilst lavage samples are circles. Within the box plots, Bx-Bx refers to all pairs of biopsy samples, Bx-CL refers to all biopsy and lavage sample pairs, CL-CL refers to all pairs of lavage samples, inter-participant refers to all pairs of samples between participants, and intra-participant refers to all pairs of samples within participants

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