New Key Publication:Gut microbial co-abundance networks show specificity in inflammatory bowel disease and obesity | Nature Communications
Gut microbiome alterations have been linked to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and obesity. Here, the authors characterize the metagenomes of four large human cohorts and perform co-abundance network analysis showing that dysbiosis in disease is marked by the altered co-abundance relationships, suggesting that pathway coabundance networks are more heterogeneous than species network. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17840-y
Behind the paper: The microbes in your gut do not live alone
By:
- Lianmin Chen
- Valerie Collij
- Martin Jaeger
- Inge C. L. van den Munckhof
- Arnau Vich Vila
- Alexander Kurilshikov
- Ranko Gacesa
- Trishla Sinha
- Marije Oosting
- Leo A. B. Joosten
- Joost H. W. Rutten
- Niels P. Riksen
- Ramnik J. Xavier
- Folkert Kuipers
- Cisca Wijmenga
- Alexandra Zhernakova
- Mihai G. Netea
- Rinse K. Weersma
- Jingyuan Fu
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