Combing fecal microbial community data to identify consistent obesity-specific microbial signatures and shared metabolic pathways

Summary: Obesity is associated with altered gut microbiome composition but data across different populations remain inconsistent. We meta-analyzed publicly available 16S-rRNA sequence datasets from 18 different studies and identified differentially abundant taxa and functional pathways of the obese...

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Main Authors: Yu Lin, Zhilu Xu, Yun Kit Yeoh, Hein Min Tun, Wenli Huang, Wei Jiang, Francis Ka Leung Chan, Siew Chien Ng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-04-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223005539