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Fig. 5

From: Differential gut microbiota composition in β-Thalassemia patients and its correlation with iron overload

Fig. 5

Higher ferritin level is linked to higher abundance of unhealthy gut-associated bacteria (a) Spearman correlations, visualized by the MicrobiomeSeq and phyloSeq packages in R, showing relative abundance of bacteria correlating with ferritin and HB (hemoglobin) levels. The adjusted p-values were calculated using Benjamini and Hochberg (***p = 0.001, **p = 0.01, *p = 0.05). (b) Graphs showing relative abundances (%) of unhealthy gut-associated bacteria are significantly correlated with high ferritin levels.

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