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Table 2 Occurrence of immune suppressive motifs in various metagenomes

From: Human milk metagenome: a functional capacity analysis

Sequence

Number of hits

Base pairs per hit

Relative occurrence (Z-score)

TCAAGCTTGA

11

844,000

(Human Milk)

1.51 (−1.6)

 

344

1,077,000

(BF Infant)

1.19 (−0.74)

 

124

779,000

(FF Infant)

1.64 (−1.84)

 

268

777,000

(Mother)

1.64 (−1.85)

 

2,245

1,276,500

(Human Genome)

 

TTAGGG

1,684

5,600

(Human Milk)

0.48 (22.54)

 

18,118

8,200

(BF Infant)

0.33 (42.54)

 

16,410

15,000

(FF Infant)

0.18 (94.85)

 

20,612

10,200

(Mother)

0.26 (57.92)

 

1,082,623

2,670

(Human Genome)

 
  1. DNA motifs TTAGGG and TCAAGCTTGA were searched for in contigs derived from human milk, breast-fed infants’ feces (BF infant), formula-fed infants’ feces (FF infant) and mothers’ feces. Relative occurrence is in comparison to the human genome.