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Metagenomics and personalized medicine.
Cell - 30 Sept 2011
Virgin Herbert W, Todd John A
Abstract excerpt
The microbiome is a complex community of Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya, and viruses that infect humans and live in our tissues. It contributes the majority of genetic information to our metagenome and, consequently, influences our resistance and susceptibility to diseases, especially common inflammatory diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease. Here we discuss how...
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