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mtDNA haplogroup and single nucleotide polymorphisms structure human microbiome communities.
BMC genomics - 3 Apr 2014
Ma Jun, Coarfa Cristian, Qin Xiang, Bonnen Penelope E, Milosavljevic Aleksandar, Versalovic James, Aagaard Kjersti
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BACKGROUND: Although our microbial community and genomes (the human microbiome) outnumber our genome by several orders of magnitude, to what extent the human host genetic complement informs the microbiota composition is not clear. The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium established a unique population-scale framework with which to characterize the relationship of microbial community structure with their...
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