Background: Many disorders display dysbiosis of the enteric microbiome, compared with healthy controls. Different disorders share a pattern of dysbiosis that may reflect ‘reverse causation’, due to non-specific effects of illness-in-general. Combining a range of disorders into an ‘aggregate nonhealthy active control’ (ANHAC) group should highlight such non-specific dysbiosis. Differential dysbiosis between the ANHAC group and specific disorders may then reflect effects of treatment or bowel dysfunction, or may potentially be causal. Here, we illustrate this logic by testing if individual genera can differentiate an ANHAC group from two specific diagnostic groups.
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