Salivary bacterial signatures in depression-obesity comorbidity are associated with neurotransmitters and neuroactive dipeptides

Table 2 Beta-diversity analysis of 16S derived ASVs across groups

Variable	R²	F	P-value
Age	0.01483	3.8849	0.001 ***
Sex	0.01042	2.7157	0.001 ***
Race	0.03504	3.0985	0.001 ***
Time of day	0.01125	0.7253	0.998
BARIC	0.0181	4.7562	0.001 ***
Obesity	0.00756	1.9645	0.003 **
Depressive symptomatology	0.00948	2.4703	0.001 ***
Obesity-depressive co-occurrences	0.02421	2.1175	0.001 ***

Asterisks indicate statistical significance of PERMANOVA test, p < 0.05. All p-values were generated based on 999 permutations

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