Cell Reports (Nov 2023)

Analysis of gut microbiome, host genetics, and plasma metabolites reveals gut microbiome-host interactions in the Japanese population

  • Yoshihiko Tomofuji,
  • Toshihiro Kishikawa,
  • Kyuto Sonehara,
  • Yuichi Maeda,
  • Kotaro Ogawa,
  • Shuhei Kawabata,
  • Eri Oguro-Igashira,
  • Tatsusada Okuno,
  • Takuro Nii,
  • Makoto Kinoshita,
  • Masatoshi Takagaki,
  • Kenichi Yamamoto,
  • Noriko Arase,
  • Mayu Yagita-Sakamaki,
  • Akiko Hosokawa,
  • Daisuke Motooka,
  • Yuki Matsumoto,
  • Hidetoshi Matsuoka,
  • Maiko Yoshimura,
  • Shiro Ohshima,
  • Shota Nakamura,
  • Manabu Fujimoto,
  • Hidenori Inohara,
  • Haruhiko Kishima,
  • Hideki Mochizuki,
  • Kiyoshi Takeda,
  • Atsushi Kumanogoh,
  • Yukinori Okada

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 11
p. 113324

Abstract

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Summary: Interaction between the gut microbiome and host plays a key role in human health. Here, we perform a metagenome shotgun-sequencing-based analysis of Japanese participants to reveal associations between the gut microbiome, host genetics, and plasma metabolome. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) for microbial species (n = 524) identifies associations between the PDE1C gene locus and Bacteroides intestinalis and between TGIF2 and TGIF2-RAB5IF gene loci and Bacteroides acidifiaciens. In a microbial gene ortholog GWAS, agaE and agaS, which are related to the metabolism of carbohydrates forming the blood group A antigen, are associated with blood group A in a manner depending on the secretor status determined by the East Asian-specific FUT2 variant. A microbiome-metabolome association analysis (n = 261) identifies associations between bile acids and microbial features such as bile acid metabolism gene orthologs including bai and 7β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. Our publicly available data will be a useful resource for understanding gut microbiome-host interactions in an underrepresented population.

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