Reproducibility, stability, and accuracy of microbial profiles by fecal sample collection method in three distinct populations

• Doratha A. Byrd ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Doratha A. Byrd, Jun Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: byrdda@nih.gov

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6608-5014

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• Jun Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Doratha A. Byrd, Jun Chen

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiome Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Emily Vogtmann,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Autumn Hullings,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Se Jin Song,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Amnon Amir,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Muhammad G. Kibriya,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Habibul Ahsan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Yu Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New York School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Heidi Nelson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiome Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Rob Knight,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Jianxin Shi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Nicholas Chia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbiome Program, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America, Biomedical Engineering and Physiology, Mayo College, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Rashmi Sinha

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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