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Differences in microbial composition across the disease stages, especially in GIN and GC were assessed using linear discriminant analysis effect size.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>There was no gradual changing trend in the richness or diversity of the gastric microbiota across stages of gastric carcinogenesis. The relative abundance of dominant taxa at phylum and genus levels didn\u2019t show a gradual shift pattern, and the only four taxa that continuously enriched from SG to GC were <jats:italic>Slackia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Selenomonas<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bergeyella<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Capnocytophaga<\/jats:italic>, all of which were oral bacteria. The most representative taxa which were enriched in GC patients were oral bacteria including <jats:italic>Parvimonas<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Eikenella<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Prevotella-2<\/jats:italic>, and environmental bacteria including <jats:italic>Kroppenstedtia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Lentibacillus<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Oceanobacillus<\/jats:italic>. The gastric microbiota in GIN patients were characterized by enrichment of intestinal commensals including <jats:italic>Romboutsia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Fusicatenibacter<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Prevotellaceae-Ga6A1-group<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Intestinimonas<\/jats:italic>. Gastric cardia cancer and non-cardia cancer patients had significantly different microbiota profiles characterized by a higher abundance of <jats:italic>Helicobacter<\/jats:italic> in the cardia cancer patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our results provide insights on potential taxonomic biomarkers for gastric cancer and precancerous stages, and suggest that gastric microbiota might play different roles in the carcinogenesis of cardia cancer and non-cardia cancer.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2021.559148","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,3]],"date-time":"2021-03-03T04:58:31Z","timestamp":1614747511000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":84,"title":["Alterations of Gastric Microbiota in Gastric Cancer and Precancerous Stages"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Xinmei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weijun","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenyu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"102","DOI":"10.1046\/j.1365-2796.2003.01119.x","article-title":"Helicobacter pylori: Resurrection of the cancer link","volume":"253","author":"Bj\u00f6rkholm","year":"2003","journal-title":"J. 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