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Maria A. Barrera-Suarez

Mayo Clinic

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A Disease-Agnostic Nasal Microbiome Wellness Index for Standardized Assessment of Upper-Airway Respiratory Health

Maria A. Barrera-Suarez, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Xiaowei Zhao, Adam L Koller, Conan Zhao, Gina Ann Suh, Lioudmila V. Karnatovskaia, Erin K. O’Brien, Vanessa L. Kronzer, Jaeyun Sung

The paper introduces a disease-agnostic Nasal Microbiome Wellness Index (NMWI) that quantitatively assesses nasal microbiome health using 16S rRNA gene data, outperforming traditional diversity indices in distinguishing healthy from non-healthy samples.

bioRxiv · Jul 22, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics