Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome

Table 4 Subgroup analysis of breastfed and not currently breastfed children at time of collection. Permutational analysis of variance using Bray-Curtis dissimilarity matrices

	F-Model	R²	Pr(>F)	F-Model	R²	Pr(>F)
Currently breastfed
Ethnicity	15.43	0.104	0.001	18.01	0.112	0.001
Age	1.78	0.014	0.13	2.43	0.015	0.02
Delivery mode	1.06	0.015	0.38	NA
Antibiotics during pregnancy	1.32	0.009	0.21	NA
Antibiotics during labor	3.16	0.023	0.009	NA
Vegetarian status	5.69	0.040	0.001	2.17	0.01	0.04
Gestational diabetes	1.05	0.007	0.36	NA
Years lived in Canada	10.39	0.070	0.001	NA
Time of introduction of solid food	4.88	0.066	0.001	NA
Formula at collection	0.72	0.007	0.65	NA
Formula in the first year	2.81	0.02	0.009	NA
Cow’s milk in the first year	0.94	0.008	0.43	NA
Weight gain in the first year	7.26	0.05	0.001	3.55	0.02	0.008
Birth weight	2.74	0.019	0.01	NA
Not currently breastfed
Ethnicity	16.10	0.074	0.001	11.54	0.06	0.001
Infant age	2.46	0.012	0.02	2.14	0.01	0.03
Time since weaning	3.20	0.019	0.002	NA
Delivery mode	1.03	0.010	0.40	NA
Antibiotics during pregnancy	2.10	0.010	0.049	NA
Antibiotics during labor	1.54	0.008	0.15	NA
Vegetarian status	3.76	0.019	0.002	NA
Gestational diabetes	1.27	0.006	0.22	NA
Years in Canada	12.79	0.062	0.001	NA
Time of introduction of solid food	2.25	0.035	0.006	NA
Formula at collection	1.63	0.009	0.11	NA
Formula in the first year	2.48	0.013	0.01	NA
Cow’s milk in the first year	0.88	0.005	0.55	NA
Weight gain in the first year	2.25	0.01	0.03	NA
Birth weight	2.20	0.011	0.03	NA

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