Potential of fecal microbiota for early-stage detection of colorectal cancer

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Zeller, Georg ^a   Tap, Julien ^a,b   Voigt, Anita Y ^a,c,d   Sunagawa, Shinichi ^a   Kultima, Jens Roat ^a   Costea, Paul I ^a   Amiot, Aurélien ^b   Böhm, Jürgen ^d   Brunetti, Francesco ^e   Habermann, Nina ^d   Hercog, Rajna ^a   Koch, Moritz ^c,i   Luciani, Alain ^e   Mende, Daniel R ^a   Schneider, Martin A ^c   Schrotz King, Petra ^d   Tournigand, Christophe ^e   Tran Van Nhieu, Jeanne ^b   Yamada, Takuji ^f   Zimmermann, Jürgen ^a   Benes, Vladimir ^a   Kloor, Matthias ^c,d   Ulrich, Cornelia M ^d,g   Von Knebel Doeberitz, Magnus ^c,d   Sobhani, Iradj ^b   Bork, Peer ^a,c,h   more..

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b University of Paris Est Créteil   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^f TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^h MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

ⁱ DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cancer screening; colorectal cancer; fecal biomarkers; human gut microbiome; metagenomics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR GROWTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FECES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FECES; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR TYPING; OCCULT BLOOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84924026956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145645     Document Type: Article

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