Quantitative metagenomics reveals unique gut microbiome biomarkers in ankylosing spondylitis

Abstract Background The assessment and characterization of the gut microbiome has become a focus of research in the area of human autoimmune diseases. Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease and evidence showed that ankylosing spondylitis may be a microbiome-driven disease. Resu...

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Main Authors: Chengping Wen, Zhijun Zheng, Tiejuan Shao, Lin Liu, Zhijun Xie, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Zhixing He, Wendi Zhong, Yongsheng Fan, Linshuang Zhang, Haichang Li, Chunyan Wu, Changfeng Hu, Qian Xu, Jia Zhou, Shunfeng Cai, Dawei Wang, Yun Huang, Maxime Breban, Nan Qin, Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-017-1271-6