“…Several studies utilized data from the TwinsUK cohort (9,46,63,75) recruited through media campaigns (88) and the American Gut project (8), in which participants were recruited online (85). Another 22 relied on in-or out-patient clinical samples (1,3,14,18,33,38,47,58,62,65,71,73,74,89,90,101,103,119,122,123,126,131). Volunteer and convenience samples are known to be self-selected on both high SES and good health, with potentially serious implications for inference (37).…”