Fecal Aliquot Straw Technique (FAST) allows for easy and reproducible subsampling: assessing interpersonal variation in trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) accumulation

Abstract Background Convenient, reproducible, and rapid preservation of unique biological specimens is pivotal to their use in microbiome analyses. As an increasing number of human studies incorporate the gut microbiome in their design, there is a high demand for streamlined sample collection and st...

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Main Authors: Kymberleigh A. Romano, Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland, Kazuyuki Kasahara, Robert L. Kerby, Eugenio I. Vivas, Daniel Amador-Noguez, Pamela Herd, Federico E. Rey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0458-8