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Haixiang Zhang¹, Jun Chen², Zhigang Li³

¹Center for Applied Mathematics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China.

Statistics in Biosciences

|June 7, 2021

Summary

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This study introduces a new statistical method to analyze how the gut microbiome mediates the relationship between diet and body mass index (BMI). The approach helps understand complex biological pathways for improved health insights.

Keywords:

Compositional mediators High dimensional data Isometric logratio transformation Joint significance test Mediation analysis

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Area of Science:

Microbiome research
Statistical genetics
Bioinformatics

Background:

Mediation analysis is crucial for understanding exposure-outcome relationships via mediators.
Microbiome data presents unique analytical challenges due to its compositional nature and high dimensionality.
Investigating the gut microbiome's role in mediating health outcomes is a growing area of research.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a robust statistical method for mediation analysis with microbiome data.
To address the challenges posed by the isometric logratio transformation of microbiome relative abundance.
To test the mediation effect of the human gut microbiome on the association between dietary fiber intake and body mass index (BMI).

Main Methods:

Utilized the isometric logratio transformation for microbiome relative abundance data.
Developed a de-biased Lasso estimation technique for identifying mediator variables.
Derived a standard error estimator to facilitate hypothesis testing for mediation effects.

Main Results:

The proposed method demonstrated good performance in extensive simulation studies.
The approach successfully identified and tested the mediation effect of the gut microbiome.
Specific mediation pathways between dietary fiber, gut microbiome, and BMI were investigated.

Conclusions:

The developed statistical method offers a reliable approach for mediation analysis in microbiome research.
This technique can uncover complex biological mechanisms linking environmental exposures, microbiome composition, and health outcomes.
The findings provide insights into the gut microbiome's role in the diet-BMI relationship.