Topographical and temporal diversity of the human skin microbiome

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5931, 2009, Pages 1190-1192

  Grice, Elizabeth A ^a   Kong, Heidi H ^b   Conlan, Sean ^a   Deming, Clayton B ^a   Davis, Joie ^a   Young, Alice C ^a   Bouffard, Gerard G ^a   Blakesley, Robert W ^a   Murray, Patrick R ^c   Green, Eric D ^a   Turner, Maria L ^b   Segre, Julia A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA; SKIN; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ACNE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; PSORIASIS; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FLORA; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 66349083859     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1171700     Document Type: Article

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14. We thank the volunteers who participated in this study; E. Bassett for assistance with sample collection; members of the Segre laboratory for their underlying contributions; M. Udey, N. Salafsky, and E. Lander for critical reading of the manuscript; and J. Fekecs and D. Leja for graphical assistance. Supported by a NIGMS Pharmacology Research Associate Training Fellowship (E.A.G.) and by the NHGRI and NCI Center for Cancer Research Intramural Research Programs. All sequences are deposited under NCBI Genome Project 30125, GenBank accession numbers GQ000001 to GQ116391.