Publication Date:
2011-04-22
Description:
Our knowledge of species and functional composition of the human gut microbiome is rapidly increasing, but it is still based on very few cohorts and little is known about variation across the world. By combining 22 newly sequenced faecal metagenomes of individuals from four countries with previously published data sets, here we identify three robust clusters (referred to as enterotypes hereafter) that are not nation or continent specific. We also confirmed the enterotypes in two published, larger cohorts, indicating that intestinal microbiota variation is generally stratified, not continuous. This indicates further the existence of a limited number of well-balanced host-microbial symbiotic states that might respond differently to diet and drug intake. The enterotypes are mostly driven by species composition, but abundant molecular functions are not necessarily provided by abundant species, highlighting the importance of a functional analysis to understand microbial communities. Although individual host properties such as body mass index, age, or gender cannot explain the observed enterotypes, data-driven marker genes or functional modules can be identified for each of these host properties. For example, twelve genes significantly correlate with age and three functional modules with the body mass index, hinting at a diagnostic potential of microbial markers.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728647/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3728647/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arumugam, Manimozhiyan -- Raes, Jeroen -- Pelletier, Eric -- Le Paslier, Denis -- Yamada, Takuji -- Mende, Daniel R -- Fernandes, Gabriel R -- Tap, Julien -- Bruls, Thomas -- Batto, Jean-Michel -- Bertalan, Marcelo -- Borruel, Natalia -- Casellas, Francesc -- Fernandez, Leyden -- Gautier, Laurent -- Hansen, Torben -- Hattori, Masahira -- Hayashi, Tetsuya -- Kleerebezem, Michiel -- Kurokawa, Ken -- Leclerc, Marion -- Levenez, Florence -- Manichanh, Chaysavanh -- Nielsen, H Bjorn -- Nielsen, Trine -- Pons, Nicolas -- Poulain, Julie -- Qin, Junjie -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Tims, Sebastian -- Torrents, David -- Ugarte, Edgardo -- Zoetendal, Erwin G -- Wang, Jun -- Guarner, Francisco -- Pedersen, Oluf -- de Vos, Willem M -- Brunak, Soren -- Dore, Joel -- MetaHIT Consortium -- Antolin, Maria -- Artiguenave, Francois -- Blottiere, Herve M -- Almeida, Mathieu -- Brechot, Christian -- Cara, Carlos -- Chervaux, Christian -- Cultrone, Antonella -- Delorme, Christine -- Denariaz, Gerard -- Dervyn, Rozenn -- Foerstner, Konrad U -- Friss, Carsten -- van de Guchte, Maarten -- Guedon, Eric -- Haimet, Florence -- Huber, Wolfgang -- van Hylckama-Vlieg, Johan -- Jamet, Alexandre -- Juste, Catherine -- Kaci, Ghalia -- Knol, Jan -- Lakhdari, Omar -- Layec, Severine -- Le Roux, Karine -- Maguin, Emmanuelle -- Merieux, Alexandre -- Melo Minardi, Raquel -- M'rini, Christine -- Muller, Jean -- Oozeer, Raish -- Parkhill, Julian -- Renault, Pierre -- Rescigno, Maria -- Sanchez, Nicolas -- Sunagawa, Shinichi -- Torrejon, Antonio -- Turner, Keith -- Vandemeulebrouck, Gaetana -- Varela, Encarna -- Winogradsky, Yohanan -- Zeller, Georg -- Weissenbach, Jean -- Ehrlich, S Dusko -- Bork, Peer -- 076964/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 082372/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):174-80. doi: 10.1038/nature09944. Epub 2011 Apr 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21508958" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacteria/*classification/genetics
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Bacterial Typing Techniques
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Biodiversity
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Biomarkers/analysis
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Europe
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Feces/microbiology
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Female
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Humans
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Intestines/*microbiology
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Male
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*Metagenome
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Metagenomics
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Phylogeny
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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