Universality of human microbial dynamics

Amir Bashan, Travis E. Gibson, Jonathan Friedman, Vincent J. Carey, Scott T. Weiss, Elizabeth L. Hohmann and Yang-Yu Liu ()
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Amir Bashan: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Travis E. Gibson: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Jonathan Friedman: Physics of Living Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vincent J. Carey: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Scott T. Weiss: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth L. Hohmann: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Yang-Yu Liu: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Nature, 2016, vol. 534, issue 7606, 259-262

Abstract: A new computational method to characterize the dynamics of human-associated microbial communities is applied to data from two large-scale metagenomic studies, and suggests that gut and mouth microbiomes of healthy individuals are subjected to universal (that is, host-independent) dynamics, whereas skin microbiomes are shaped by the host environment; the method paves the way to designing general microbiome-based therapies.

Date: 2016
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