Diversity and enterotype in gut bacterial community of adults in Taiwan
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- 作者：Chao Liang ; Han-Chi Tseng ; Hui-Mei Chen ; Wei-Chi Wang ; Chih-Min Chiu…
- 关键词：Enterotype ; 16S rDNA ; Next ; generation sequencing ; Gut microbiome ; Predictive model
- 刊名：BMC Genomics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：18
- 期：1-supp
- 全文大小：1621KB
- 刊物主题：Life Sciences, general; Microarrays; Proteomics; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Plant Genetics & Genomics;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2164
- 卷排序：18
文摘
BackgroundGastrointestinal microbiota, particularly gut microbiota, is associated with human health. The biodiversity of gut microbiota is affected by ethnicities and environmental factors such as dietary habits or medicine intake, and three enterotypes of the human gut microbiome were announced in 2011. These enterotypes are not significantly correlated with gender, age, or body weight but are influenced by long-term dietary habits. However, to date, only two enterotypes (predominantly consisting of Bacteroides and Prevotella) have shown these characteristics in previous research; the third enterotype remains ambiguous. Understanding the enterotypes can improve the knowledge of the relationship between microbiota and human health.