Changes in human gut flora with age: an Indian familial study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gut micro flora plays vital role in health status of the host. The majority of microbes residing in the gut have a profound influence on human physiology and nutrition. Different human ethnic groups vary in genetic makeup as well as the environmental conditions they live in. The gut flora changes with genetic makeup and environmental factors and hence it is necessary to understand the composition of gut flora of different ethnic groups. Indian population is different in physiology from western population (YY paradox) and thus the gut flora in Indian population is likely to differ from the extensively studied gut flora in western population. In this study we have investigated the gut flora of two Indian families, each with three individuals belonging to successive gen

SUBMITTER: Marathe N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3511239 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature