Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification.

The human skin microbiome can vary over time, and inter-individual variability of the microbiome is greater than the temporal variability within an individual. The skin microbiome has become a useful tool to identify individuals, and one type of personal identification using the skin microbiome has...

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Main Authors: Hikaru Watanabe, Issei Nakamura, Sayaka Mizutani, Yumiko Kurokawa, Hiroshi Mori, Ken Kurokawa, Takuji Yamada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6059399?pdf=render