Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

A gut microbiome signature for cirrhosis due to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

  • Cyrielle Caussy,
  • Anupriya Tripathi,
  • Greg Humphrey,
  • Shirin Bassirian,
  • Seema Singh,
  • Claire Faulkner,
  • Ricki Bettencourt,
  • Emily Rizo,
  • Lisa Richards,
  • Zhenjiang Z. Xu,
  • Michael R. Downes,
  • Ronald M. Evans,
  • David A. Brenner,
  • Claude B. Sirlin,
  • Rob Knight,
  • Rohit Loomba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09455-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Development of cirrhosis in individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease can predict mortality. Here the authors used a unique twin and family cohort to identify a gut microbiome-derived 16sRNA signature that can detect cirrhosis in individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.