Reliability of a participant-friendly fecal collection method for microbiome analyses: a step towards large sample size investigation

Reliability of a participant-friendly fecal collection method for microbiome analyses: a step towards large sample size investigation

Abstract Background The effects of gut microbiota on human traits are expected to be small to moderate and adding the complexity of the human diseases, microbiome research demands big sample sizes. Fecal samples for such studies are mostly self-collected by participants at home. This imposes an extr...

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Main Authors: Joanna W. Szopinska, Raphaële Gresse, Saskia van der Marel, Jos Boekhorst, Sabina Lukovac, Iris van Swam, Barbara Franke, Harro Timmerman, Clara Belzer, Alejandro Arias Vasquez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Subjects:
Microbiome
OMNIgene•GUT
Bacterial DNA extraction
Next generation sequencing
Fecal collection and storage method
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-018-1249-x

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