Profiling the Salivary microbiome of the Qatari population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The role of the human microbiome in human health and disease has been studied in various body sites. However, compared to the gut microbiome, where most of the research focus is, the salivary microbiome still bears a vast amount of information that needs to be revealed. This study aims to characterize the salivary microbiome composition in the Qatari population, and to explore specific microbial signatures that can be associated with various lifestyles and different oral conditions.

Materials and methods

We characterized the salivary microbiome of 997 Qatari adults using high-throughput sequencing of the V1-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene.

Results

In this study, we have characterized the salivary microbiome of 997 Qatari participants. Our data show that Bact

SUBMITTER: Murugesan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7071716 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature