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Western oropharyngeal and gut microbial profiles are associated with allergic conditions in Chinese immigrant childrenDOI: 10.1016/j.waojou.2019.100051 Keywords: Microbiome, Immigration, Western environment, Atopy, Allergy AC, Australian Chinese, CC, China-Born Chinese, rRNA, ribosomal RNA, OP, oropharyngeal, SPT, skin prick test, BMI, body mass index, LDA, The linear discriminant analysis, LEfSe, The linear discriminant analysis effect size, PICRUSt, Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States, KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes, FDR, false discovery rate Abstract: The allergy epidemic resulting from western environment/lifestyles is potentially due to modifications of the human microbiome. Therefore, it is of interest to study immigrants living in a western environment as well as their counterparts in the country of origin to understand differences in their microbiomes and health status
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