Geography, Ethnicity or Subsistence-Specific Variations in Human Microbiome Composition and Diversity.

ABSTRACT: One of the fundamental issues in the microbiome research is characterization of the healthy human microbiota. Recent studies have elucidated substantial divergences in the microbiome structure between healthy individuals from different race and ethnicity. This review provides a comprehensive account of such geography, ethnicity or life-style-specific variations in healthy microbiome at five major body habitats-Gut, Oral-cavity, Respiratory Tract, Skin, and Urogenital Tract (UGT). The review focuses on the general trend in the human microbiome evolution-a gradual transition in the gross compositional structure along with a continual decrease in diversity of the microbiome, especially of the gut microbiome, as the human populations passed through three stages of subsistence like foraging, ru

SUBMITTER: Gupta VK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481955 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature