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CORRECTION article

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 24 October 2025

Sec. Intestinal Microbiome

Volume 15 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2025.1702282

Correction: Evaluation of the gastric microbiota based on body mass index using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

This article is a correction to:

  1. Evaluation of the gastric microbiota based on body mass index using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

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Sang Hoon LeeSang Hoon Lee1Eun Bae Kim,Eun Bae Kim2,3Sung Chul Park*Sung Chul Park1*Seung-Joo NamSeung-Joo Nam1Hyunseok ChoHyunseok Cho4Han Jo JeonHan Jo Jeon5Sang Pyo LeeSang Pyo Lee6
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
  • 2Department of Applied Animal Science, Kangwon National University College of Animal Life Sciences, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
  • 3Institute of Animal Life Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
  • 4Department of Pediatrics, Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
  • 5Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • 6Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

A Correction on
Evaluation of the gastric microbiota based on body mass index using 16S rRNA gene sequencing

By Lee SH, Kim EB, Park SC, Nam S-J, Cho H, Jeon HJ and Lee SP (2025). Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1651316. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1651316

In the published article, Figures 2A–D and Figures 3A–D were mistakenly interchanged. The corrected arrangement is: Figure 2A–D should appear as Figure 3A–D , and Figure 3A–D should appear as Figure 2A–D .

The original article has been updated.

Figure 2
Four panels labeled A, B, C, and D display scatter plots of principal component analyses. Each plot groups data points by color: green for normal weight, red for obesity, and blue for overweight. Panel A is a 2D plot showing distinct clusters circled in green and red. Panels B, C, and D show 3D plots with overlapping and distinct clusters, each annotated with ellipses indicating groupings. The axes are labeled with percentages indicating the variance explained by each principal component.

Figure 2. Comparison of beta diversity among the overweight, obese, and normal weight groups. (A) Bray -Curtis distance (2D). (B) Bray -Curtis distance (3D). (C) Unweighted UniFrac distance matrix. (D) Weighted UniFrac distance matrix..

Figure 3
Four panels display microbiome data. Panel A shows a bar chart of phylum-level relative abundance for normal weight and overweight/obesity categories. Panel B presents genus-level relative abundance for the same categories. Panel C features an LDA score bar graph, highlighting differential taxa between the groups at the genus level. Panel D displays an LDA score bar graph at the species level, identifying significant taxa. Normal weight is shown in green, while overweight/obesity is in red.

Figure 3. Relative abundance of the microbial community and differentially abundant taxa. Stacked bar plots show the taxonomic composition at the (A) phylum and (B) genus levels. All detected phyla are included, whereas genera are presented if the relative abundance in any group exceeded 1.0%. Differentially abundant taxa between overweight/obese and normal-weight groups were identified using linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) at the (C) genus and (D) species levels.

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Keywords: body mass index, gastric microbiota, obesity, 16S rRNA sequencing, metabolic dysregulation

Citation: Lee SH, Kim EB, Park SC, Nam S-J, Cho H, Jeon HJ and Lee SP (2025) Correction: Evaluation of the gastric microbiota based on body mass index using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol. 15:1702282. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1702282

Received: 09 September 2025; Accepted: 10 October 2025;
Published: 24 October 2025.

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*Correspondence: Sung Chul Park, c2NobHBAaGFubWFpbC5uZXQ=

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