Communications Medicine (Oct 2022)

Multi-omic phenotyping reveals host-microbe responses to bariatric surgery, glycaemic control and obesity

  • Nicholas C. Penney,
  • Derek K. T. Yeung,
  • Isabel Garcia-Perez,
  • Joram M. Posma,
  • Aleksandra Kopytek,
  • Bethany Garratt,
  • Hutan Ashrafian,
  • Gary Frost,
  • Julian R. Marchesi,
  • Sanjay Purkayastha,
  • Lesley Hoyles,
  • Ara Darzi,
  • Elaine Holmes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00185-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Penney et al. conduct microbial and metabolic profiling in people with obesity, with or without type 2 diabetes, undergoing two types of bariatric surgery. Integrative analysis identifies multi-omic signatures associated with response to surgery, body mass index, and glycaemic control.