Figure 3

Comparison of 16S rRNA gene analyses using sequencing and HOMIM. The frequency of bacterial types (by percentage), determined by 16S rRNA sequencing, of 4 plaque samples from low disease and 5 plaque samples from high disease West Virginians, ranked based on criteria defined in Materials and Methods, was compared with the microarray signal intensity obtained from the same samples in HOMIM analyses. Bacterial types above the red line were more frequent in low disease.