A strategy that controls confounders in quantitative microbiome data challenges the validity of previously reported microbial markers in colorectal cancer and serves as a wake-up call for the microbiome research field.
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Jiao, N., Zhu, L. & Zhu, R. The search for authentic microbiome–disease relationships. Nat Med 30, 1243–1244 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02920-z
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