Table 1 Metadata for Canada and UK cohorts.

From: Explainable AI reveals changes in skin microbiome composition linked to phenotypic differences

Time series Samples

Country

Sex

Corneometer

Age

Menopausal status

Smoking status

1200 samples of 62 subjects

Canada

Female

[2.4–57.2]

Median ~ 24.46

Mean ~ 24.36

Std ~ 8.87

[21–65] Median ~ 56.0

Mean ~ 52.7

Std ~ 11.36

324 samples of 18 subjects in pre-menopause

876 of 44 subjects in post-menopausal

286 samples of 19 smokers

914 samples of 43 non-smokers

278 samples of 102 subjects

UK

Female

[8.1–78.4]

Median ~ 27.3

Mean ~ 31.70

Std ~ 12.42

[19–55]

Median ~ 39.5

Mean ~ 38.74

Std ~ 9.09

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  1. See Supplementary Figure 1 for more details on the distributions of corneometer, age and samples per subjects. Also see Methods and Supplementary Notes for more detail on the sample collection.
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