The fecal metabolome as a functional readout of the gut microbiome

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 790-795

  Zierer, Jonas ^a,b,h   Jackson, Matthew A ^a   Kastenmüller, Gabi ^b   Mangino, Massimo ^a,c   Long, Tao ^d,i   Telenti, Amalio ^d   Mohney, Robert P ^e   Small, Kerrin S ^a   Bell, Jordana T ^a   Steves, Claire J ^a   Valdes, Ana M ^a,f,g   Spector, Tim D ^a   Menni, Cristina ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c BHF Centre for Regenerative Medicine and BHF Centre of Excellence and the Biomedical Research Centre at Guy s St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King s College London   (United Kingdom)

^d Human Longevity Inc   (United States)

^e METABOLON INC   (United States)

^f NIHR NOTTINGHAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT MASS; FECES; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; METABOLOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; OBESITY;

ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; RNA 16S;

AGED; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLOME; OBESITY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 85047831132     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0135-7     Document Type: Article

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