Shotgun Metagenomics of 250 Adult Twins Reveals Genetic and Environmental Impacts on the Gut Microbiome

Cell Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 572-584.e3

  Xie, Hailiang ^a   Guo, Ruijin ^a,b   Zhong, Huanzi ^a   Feng, Qiang ^a   Lan, Zhou ^a   Qin, Bingcai ^a   Ward, Kirsten J ^c   Jackson, Matthew A ^c   Xia, Yan ^a,d   Chen, Xu ^a,e   Chen, Bing ^a   Xia, Huihua ^a   Xu, Changlu ^a,e   Li, Fei ^a,d   Xu, Xun ^a   Al Aama, Jumana Yousuf ^a   Yang, Huanming ^a,f   Wang, Jian ^a,f   Kristiansen, Karsten ^a,g   Wang, Jun ^a,b   Steves, Claire J ^c   Bell, Jordana T ^c   Li, Junhua ^a   Spector, Timothy D ^c   Jia, Huijue ^a,b   more..

^a BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^b MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f James D Watson Institute of Genome Sciences   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

heritability; metabolic diseases; microbiome; SNPs

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AKKERMANSIA MUCINIPHILA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDES UNIFORMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAGENOMICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; ROSEBURIA HOMINIS; RUMINOCOCCUS BROMII; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 85006105634     PISSN: 24054712     EISSN: 24054720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.004     Document Type: Article

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