Re-purposing 16S rRNA gene sequence data from within case paired tumor biopsy and tumor-adjacent biopsy or fecal samples to identify microbial markers for colorectal cancer

• Manasi S. Shah ,

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

  * E-mail: manasishah86@gmail.com

  Affiliations University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America, Informatics, Second Genome, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Texas Children’s Microbiome Center, Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7094-7628

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• Todd DeSantis,

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

  Affiliation Informatics, Second Genome, Inc, South San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jose-Miguel Yamal,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Tiffany Weir,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Elizabeth P. Ryan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University/Colorado School of Public Health, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Julia L. Cope,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Texas Children’s Microbiome Center, Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, Diversigen, Inc, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4600-5600

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• Emily B. Hollister

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Texas Children’s Microbiome Center, Department of Pathology, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America, Diversigen, Inc, Houston, TX, United States of America

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