Objective To study the composition and function of tongue coating(TC)and gastrointestinal tract(GIT)microbiota in participants with yellow-greasy tongue coating(YGTC),and to ex-plore the representative metabolite markers and pathways in this group.Methods Subjects with YGTC or thin-white tongue coating(TWTC)were recruited from December 1,2021 to October 30,2022,and the TC and fecal samples were collected.Samples were subjected to both whole-genome shotgun(WGS),and 16S rRNA gene sequencing.The α-diversity analysis,principal component analysis(P...