Communications Biology (Feb 2023)

Interpersonal variability of the human gut virome confounds disease signal detection in IBD

  • Stephen R. Stockdale,
  • Andrey N. Shkoporov,
  • Ekaterina V. Khokhlova,
  • Karen M. Daly,
  • Siobhan A. McDonnell,
  • Orla O’ Regan,
  • James A. Nolan,
  • Thomas D. S. Sutton,
  • Adam G. Clooney,
  • Feargal J. Ryan,
  • Donal Sheehan,
  • Aonghus Lavelle,
  • Lorraine A. Draper,
  • Fergus Shanahan,
  • R. Paul Ross,
  • Colin Hill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04592-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A longitudinal analysis of unamplified fecal virome of healthy controls and IBD patients reveals interpersonal variability is a factor that limits our ability to identify associations between the virome composition and IBD.