Publication Date:
2013-08-30
Description:
We are facing a global metabolic health crisis provoked by an obesity epidemic. Here we report the human gut microbial composition in a population sample of 123 non-obese and 169 obese Danish individuals. We find two groups of individuals that differ by the number of gut microbial genes and thus gut bacterial richness. They contain known and previously unknown bacterial species at different proportions; individuals with a low bacterial richness (23% of the population) are characterized by more marked overall adiposity, insulin resistance and dyslipidaemia and a more pronounced inflammatory phenotype when compared with high bacterial richness individuals. The obese individuals among the lower bacterial richness group also gain more weight over time. Only a few bacterial species are sufficient to distinguish between individuals with high and low bacterial richness, and even between lean and obese participants. Our classifications based on variation in the gut microbiome identify subsets of individuals in the general white adult population who may be at increased risk of progressing to adiposity-associated co-morbidities.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Le Chatelier, Emmanuelle -- Nielsen, Trine -- Qin, Junjie -- Prifti, Edi -- Hildebrand, Falk -- Falony, Gwen -- Almeida, Mathieu -- Arumugam, Manimozhiyan -- Batto, Jean-Michel -- Kennedy, Sean -- Leonard, Pierre -- Li, Junhua -- Burgdorf, Kristoffer -- Grarup, Niels -- Jorgensen, Torben -- Brandslund, Ivan -- Nielsen, Henrik Bjorn -- Juncker, Agnieszka S -- Bertalan, Marcelo -- Levenez, Florence -- Pons, Nicolas -- Rasmussen, Simon -- Sunagawa, Shinichi -- Tap, Julien -- Tims, Sebastian -- Zoetendal, Erwin G -- Brunak, Soren -- Clement, Karine -- Dore, Joel -- Kleerebezem, Michiel -- Kristiansen, Karsten -- Renault, Pierre -- Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas -- de Vos, Willem M -- Zucker, Jean-Daniel -- Raes, Jeroen -- Hansen, Torben -- MetaHIT consortium -- Bork, Peer -- Wang, Jun -- Ehrlich, S Dusko -- Pedersen, Oluf -- England -- Nature. 2013 Aug 29;500(7464):541-6. doi: 10.1038/nature12506.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉INRA, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, US1367 Metagenopolis, 78350 Jouy en Josas, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23985870" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adiposity
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Adult
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Bacteria/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification
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Biomarkers/*metabolism
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Body Mass Index
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Case-Control Studies
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Diet
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Dyslipidemias/microbiology
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Energy Metabolism
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Europe/ethnology
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European Continental Ancestry Group
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Female
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Gastrointestinal Tract/*microbiology
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Genes, Bacterial
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Humans
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Inflammation/microbiology
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Insulin Resistance
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Male
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*Metagenome/genetics
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Obesity/metabolism/microbiology
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Overweight/metabolism/microbiology
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Phylogeny
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Thinness/microbiology
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Weight Gain
;
Weight Loss
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
