Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responses

  • Claire Duvallet,
  • Sean M. Gibbons,
  • Thomas Gurry,
  • Rafael A. Irizarry,
  • Eric J. Alm

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01973-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Reported associations between the human microbiome and disease are often inconsistent. Here, Duvallet et al. perform a meta-analysis of 28 gut microbiome studies spanning ten diseases, and find associations that are likely not disease-specific but potentially part of a shared response to disease.