Nature Communications (May 2021)

Taxonomic signatures of cause-specific mortality risk in human gut microbiome

  • Aaro Salosensaari,
  • Ville Laitinen,
  • Aki S. Havulinna,
  • Guillaume Meric,
  • Susan Cheng,
  • Markus Perola,
  • Liisa Valsta,
  • Georg Alfthan,
  • Michael Inouye,
  • Jeramie D. Watrous,
  • Tao Long,
  • Rodolfo A. Salido,
  • Karenina Sanders,
  • Caitriona Brennan,
  • Gregory C. Humphrey,
  • Jon G. Sanders,
  • Mohit Jain,
  • Pekka Jousilahti,
  • Veikko Salomaa,
  • Rob Knight,
  • Leo Lahti,
  • Teemu Niiranen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22962-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Gut microbiome composition has a role in health and disease. Here the authors show that microbiome signatures related to the Enterobacteriaceae family are associated with cause-specific mortality risk in a well phenotyped Finish population over a 15-year follow-up.