Fig. 4

Taxonomic profiles of the gut microbiome of the sampled South African dataset. Phylum level relative abundance values are depicted in the boxplots in (a) Combined Bushbuckridge and Soweto cohorts, (b) Bushbuckridge and (c) Soweto. The corresponding genera abundance levels are depicted in d, e and f respectively. ‘*’ indicates a statistically significant difference as measured by the Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test with a p-value of < 0.05