Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
Extensive gut virome variation and its associations with host and environmental factors in a population-level cohort
Abstract
Here, Nishijima et al. perform a large-scale analysis of the human gut virome in the Japanese 4D cohort of 4198 deeply phenotyped individuals, revealing thousands of bacteriophage genomes, virus-bacteria interactions, and describing associations with various host and environmental factors.