Considerations For Optimizing Microbiome Analysis Using a Marker Gene

Frontiers in Nutrition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

  de la Cuesta Zuluaga, Jacobo ^a   Escobar, Juan S ^a  

^a Grupo Empresarial Nutresa   (Colombia)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; gut microbiome; next generation sequencing; personalized medicine; personalized nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010803857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2016.00026     Document Type: Review

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