Interactions between species introduce spurious associations in microbiome studies

• Rajita Menon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4767-0971

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• Vivek Ramanan,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations BRITE Bioinformatics REU Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology and Computer Science, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kirill S. Korolev

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: korolev@bu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-0645

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