Forest plots of alterations in the α-diversity of patients with RA versus HCs. (A) Shannon index; (B) Simpson index; (C) ACE; (D) Chao1; (E) evenness index; (F) observed species. Compared to HCs, the Shannon index, Simpson index, ACE, Chao1, and evenness index of RA patients showed a significant decrease
We would like to thank all the participants involved in this study.
QYS: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—review & editing. YZ: Data curation. DQ: Writing—original draft. XS and YS: Investigation, Data curation. RQL and SXZ: Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation. YFZ: Data curation. All the authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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The original data supporting the conclusions of this manuscript will be made available free of charge to any qualified researcher by the author, Sheng-Xiao Zhang, if required.
This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province No. [202203021221269]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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