Publication Date:
2010-03-06
Description:
To understand the impact of gut microbes on human health and well-being it is crucial to assess their genetic potential. Here we describe the Illumina-based metagenomic sequencing, assembly and characterization of 3.3 million non-redundant microbial genes, derived from 576.7 gigabases of sequence, from faecal samples of 124 European individuals. The gene set, approximately 150 times larger than the human gene complement, contains an overwhelming majority of the prevalent (more frequent) microbial genes of the cohort and probably includes a large proportion of the prevalent human intestinal microbial genes. The genes are largely shared among individuals of the cohort. Over 99% of the genes are bacterial, indicating that the entire cohort harbours between 1,000 and 1,150 prevalent bacterial species and each individual at least 160 such species, which are also largely shared. We define and describe the minimal gut metagenome and the minimal gut bacterial genome in terms of functions present in all individuals and most bacteria, respectively.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779803/" 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/PMC3779803/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Qin, Junjie -- Li, Ruiqiang -- Raes, Jeroen -- Arumugam, Manimozhiyan -- Burgdorf, Kristoffer Solvsten -- Manichanh, Chaysavanh -- Nielsen, Trine -- Pons, Nicolas -- Levenez, Florence -- Yamada, Takuji -- Mende, Daniel R -- Li, Junhua -- Xu, Junming -- Li, Shaochuan -- Li, Dongfang -- Cao, Jianjun -- Wang, Bo -- Liang, Huiqing -- Zheng, Huisong -- Xie, Yinlong -- Tap, Julien -- Lepage, Patricia -- Bertalan, Marcelo -- Batto, Jean-Michel -- Hansen, Torben -- Le Paslier, Denis -- Linneberg, Allan -- Nielsen, H Bjorn -- Pelletier, Eric -- Renault, Pierre -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- Turner, Keith -- Zhu, Hongmei -- Yu, Chang -- Li, Shengting -- Jian, Min -- Zhou, Yan -- Li, Yingrui -- Zhang, Xiuqing -- Li, Songgang -- Qin, Nan -- Yang, Huanming -- Wang, Jian -- Brunak, Soren -- Dore, Joel -- Guarner, Francisco -- Kristiansen, Karsten -- Pedersen, Oluf -- Parkhill, Julian -- Weissenbach, Jean -- MetaHIT Consortium -- Bork, Peer -- Ehrlich, S Dusko -- Wang, Jun -- 085775/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2010 Mar 4;464(7285):59-65. doi: 10.1038/nature08821.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20203603" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adult
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Bacteria/classification/genetics/isolation & purification/metabolism
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Cohort Studies
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Contig Mapping
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Denmark
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Feces/microbiology
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Gastrointestinal Tract/*microbiology
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Genes, Bacterial/genetics
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Genes, Essential/genetics
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Genome, Bacterial/genetics
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*Genomics
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Health
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Humans
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/genetics
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Metagenome/*genetics
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Obesity/genetics
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Open Reading Frames/genetics
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Overweight/genetics
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Spain
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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