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Table 1 LefSe results for the autism/neurotypical dataset computed for different types of biomarkers. In bold are the highest performing results, and results within a standard deviation, for fraction differentially abundant microbes and median effect size

From: Improved detection of disease-associated gut microbes using 16S sequence-based biomarkers

Differential biomarkers in autism identified using LefSe

Biomarker type

Fraction differentially abundant

Median effect size

otu95

0.168

0.009

otu97

0.161

0.017

otu99

0.128

0.020

micropheno4

0.237

0.021

micropheno6

0.149

0.014

micropheno8

0.112

0.017

ditaxa

0.129

0.017

sbb1

0.158

0.018

sbb2

0.112

0.023

sbb3

0.098

0.012