Chinese gut microbiota and its associations with staple food type, ethnicity, and urbanization

Abstract The gut microbiota could affect human health and disease. Although disease-associated microbiota alteration has been extensively investigated in the Chinese population, a nationwide Chinese gut microbiota baseline is still lacking. Here we performed 16 S rRNA gene sequencing on fecal sample...

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Main Authors: Jing Lu, Li Zhang, Qixiao Zhai, Jianxin Zhao, Hao Zhang, Yuan-Kun Lee, Wenwei Lu, Mingkun Li, Wei Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00245-0