ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2021
Increasing Reproducibility in Oral Microbiome Research.
Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Association of Microbiome with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Metagenomic Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Dysbiosis of the Saliva Microbiota in Patients with Psoriasis: A Case-Control Study.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Understanding the bacterial compositional network associations between oral and gut microbiome within healthy Koreans.Journal of oral microbiology · 2023Article
- Impact of waterpipe smoking on the salivary microbiome.Frontiers in oral health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Evidence on the role of the oral microbiome in health and disease is changing the way we understand, diagnose, and treat ailments. Numerous studies on diseases affecting the oral cavity have revealed a large amount of data that is invaluable for the advancements in diagnosing and treating these diseases. However, the clinical translation of most of these exploratory data is stalled by variable methodology between studies and non-uniform reporting of the data.Understanding the key areas that are gateways to bias in microbiome studies is imperative to overcome this challenge faced by oral microbiome research. Bias can be multifactorial and may be introduced in a microbiome research study during the formulation of the study design, sample collection and storage, or the sample processing protocols before sequencing. This chapter summarizes the recommendations from literature to eliminate bias in the microbiome research studies and to ensure the reproducibility of the microbiome research data.
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