Research Article

The Potential Link between Gut Microbiota and Serum TRAb in Chinese Patients with Severe and Active Graves’ Orbitopathy

Table 4

Latent variable analysis based on the five identified bacteria.

latent1latent2latent3latent4

Class probabilitya0.18470.35670.16130.2973

Y1 (OTU_2, s_Prevotella_copri)
 10.00000.72340.40000.0000
 21.00000.27660.20000.1319
 30.00000.00000.40000.8681

Y2 (OTU_5, s_Bacteroides_stercoris)
 10.65460.09580.20000.4550
 20.34540.00000.80000.5450
 30.00000.90420.00000.0000

Y3 (OTU_1068, f_Prevotellaceae)
 10.34930.00001.00000.0000
 20.30560.54620.00000.7823
 30.34500.45380.00000.2177

Y4 (OTU_736, g_Bacteroides)
 10.00000.72340.60000.0000
 21.00000.27660.00000.1319
 30.00000.00000.40000.8681

Y5 (OTU_1112, g_Bacteroides)
 10.17470.36171.00000.2170
 20.13410.18450.00000.6718
 30.69120.45380.00000.1111

a1, 2, and 3 indicate three levels of absolute abundance (<33rd percentile, >33rd percentile and <66rd percentile, and >66rd percentile) of each bacterium.