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  • Human microbiome composition influences health outcomes.
  • Time-to-event analysis is crucial for understanding disease onset.
  • Microbiome data requires specialized compositional data analysis (CoDA) methods.

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  • To address the lack of statistical tools for microbiome survival analysis incorporating CoDA.
  • To introduce coda4microbiome, a novel methodology for identifying microbial signatures in time-to-event studies.
  • To provide an extension to existing coda4microbiome functions for survival data.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an elastic-net penalized Cox regression model tailored for compositional covariates.
  • Implemented the new methodology within the R package coda4microbiome.
  • Applied the algorithm to a case study on type 1 diabetes development in mice.

Main Results:

  • Identified a bacterial signature comprising 21 genera associated with diabetes development.
  • Demonstrated the utility of coda4microbiome for survival analysis in a relevant biological context.
  • Successfully integrated the survival analysis extension into the existing coda4microbiome R package.

Conclusions:

  • coda4microbiome provides a robust statistical framework for microbiome survival analysis.
  • The identified microbial signature offers insights into diabetes pathogenesis.
  • This methodology enhances the capacity for analyzing microbiome data in time-to-event studies.