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"Competing interests The Italian Ministry of Health had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the paper; and decision to submit the paper for publication. The authors declare no competing interests."

"This work was supported by ERANET NEURON JTC 2018 (Mental Disorders) Project “EMBED” to F.C.; HDHL-INTIMIC-085-GUTMOM project (co-PI F.C.) within the ERA-NET Co-fund HDHL-INTIMIC (INtesTInal MICrobiomics) program; by “Avvio alla Ricerca - Tipo 1” 2021 “Sapienza” University of Rome funding to C.M.; funding from the Italian Ministry of Health (Ricerca Corrente 2021 to F.C.) and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (grant: PRIN 2017AY8BP4 and PON “Ricerca e Innovazione” PerMedNet project ARS01_01226) to M.A.R."