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    • Microbiome research
    • Genomics
    • Computational biology

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    • High-throughput sequencing enables microbiome-disease association studies.
    • Current methods often overlook taxonomic hierarchy in microbiome data analysis.
    • Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) are commonly used to represent microbial communities.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel hierarchical model, HisCoM-microb, for microbiome data analysis.
    • To integrate taxonomic hierarchy information with OTU abundance data.
    • To improve the inference of microbe-disease associations.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a two-layer hierarchical structural component model (HisCoM-microb).
    • Incorporated both OTU table data and taxonomy information.
    • Simultaneously estimated coefficients for OTUs and higher-level taxa.

    Main Results:

    • HisCoM-microb successfully revealed associations between taxa and disease status.
    • The model identified key OTUs associated with disease.
    • Both simulation and real data analyses validated the model's performance.

    Conclusions:

    • HisCoM-microb effectively utilizes taxonomic structure for microbiome data analysis.
    • The model enhances understanding of microbe-disease relationships.
    • It provides a robust method for identifying disease-associated microbes.