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SUBMITTER: Yatsunenko T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3376388 | biostudies-other | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature 20120509 7402
Gut microbial communities represent one source of human genetic and metabolic diversity. To examine how gut microbiomes differ among human populations, here we characterize bacterial species in fecal samples from 531 individuals, plus the gene content of 110 of them. The cohort encompassed healthy children and adults from the Amazonas of Venezuela, rural Malawi and US metropolitan areas and included mono- and dizygotic twins. Shared features of the functional maturation of the gut microbiome wer ...[more]