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Analysis of pairwise intersample distances quantifies the association between the microbiome diversity and covariates of interest (e.g. environmental factors, clinical outcomes, treatment groups). In the design of these analyses, multiple choices for distance metrics are available. Most distance-based methods, however, use a single distance and are underpowered if the distance is poorly chosen. In addition, distance-based tests cannot flexibly handle confounding variables, which can result in excessive false-positive findings.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: We derive presence-weighted UniFrac to complement the existing UniFrac distances for more powerful detection of the variation in species richness. We develop PERMANOVA-S, a new distance-based method that tests the association of microbiome composition with any covariates of interest. PERMANOVA-S improves the commonly-used Permutation Multivariate Analysis of Variance (PERMANOVA) test by allowing flexible confounder adjustments and ensembling multiple distances. We conducted extensive simulation studies to evaluate the performance of different distances under various patterns of association. Our simulation studies demonstrate that the power of the test relies on how well the selected distance captures the nature of the association. The PERMANOVA-S unified test combines multiple distances and achieves good power regardless of the patterns of the underlying association. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by reanalyzing several real microbiome datasets.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Availability and Implementation: miProfile software is freely available at https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/tang-lab\/software\/miProfile .<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0z.tang@vanderbilt.edu or g.chen@vanderbilt.edu<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw311","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,20]],"date-time":"2016-05-20T09:20:44Z","timestamp":1463736044000},"page":"2618-2625","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":132,"title":["PERMANOVA-S: association test for microbial community composition that accommodates confounders and multiple distances"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Zheng-Zheng","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA"}]},{"given":"Guanhua","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203, USA"}]},{"given":"Alexander V.","family":"Alekseyenko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2 Biomedical Informatics Center,"},{"name":"3 Department of Public Health Sciences and"},{"name":"4 Department of Oral Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29403, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,5,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020112591668500_btw311-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"31.","DOI":"10.1186\/2049-2618-1-31","article-title":"Community differentiation of the cutaneous microbiota in psoriasis","volume":"1","author":"Alekseyenko","year":"2013","journal-title":"Microbiome"},{"key":"2023020112591668500_btw311-B2","first-page":"32","article-title":"A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance","volume":"26","author":"Anderson","year":"2001","journal-title":"Aust. 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