Cohabitation is associated with a greater resemblance in gut microbiota which can impact cardiometabolic and inflammatory risk.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gut microbiota composition is known to be influenced by a myriad of factors including the host genetic profile and a number of environmental influences. Here, we focus on the environmental influence of cohabitation on the gut microbiota as well as whether these environmentally influenced microorganisms are associated with cardiometabolic and inflammatory burden. We perform this by investigating the gut microbiota composition of various groups of related individuals including cohabitating monozygotic (MZ) twin pairs, non-cohabitating MZ twin pairs and spouse pairs.

Results

A stronger correlation between alpha diversity was found in cohabitating MZ twins (45 pairs, r = 0.64, p = 2.21 × 10^- 06) than in non-cohabitating MZ twin pairs (121 pairs, r = 0.4

SUBMITTER: Finnicum CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805388 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature