TABLE 1 .
Interclass correlation coefficients calculated for respiratory and intestinal tracts
| Sample type | Genus | Proportion of total no. of reads (%) |
ICCa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Bacteroides | 18 | 0.54 |
| Bifidobacterium | 12 | 0.61 | |
| Veillonella | 10 | 0.29 | |
| Clostridium | 9 | <0.01 | |
| Blautia | 9 | 0.36 | |
| Parabacteroides | 8 | 0.60 | |
| Intestinal | Streptococcus | 38 | <0.01 |
| Veillonella | 10 | 0.23 | |
| Prevotella | 9 | 0.05 | |
| Bacteroides | 5 | <0.01 | |
| Neisseria | 3 | 0.30 | |
| Haemophilus | 3 | <0.01 |
a
ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient. The values of ICC are bounded between 0 and 1, with values approaching 1 signifying that a greater proportion of the total variation in microbial normalized abundance is accounted for by between-subject variation (intersubject variation). The ICC can also be interpreted as the proportion of total variance in microbial normalized abundance that is “between subjects.”