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Variation in Rural African Gut Microbiota Is Strongly Correlated with Colonization by Entamoeba and Subsistence.
PLoS genetics - 1 Nov 2015
Morton Elise R, Lynch Joshua, Froment Alain, Lafosse Sophie, Heyer Evelyne, Przeworski Molly, Blekhman Ran, Ségurel Laure
Abstract excerpt
The human gut microbiota is impacted by host nutrition and health status and therefore represents a potentially adaptive phenotype influenced by metabolic and immune constraints. Previous studies contrasting rural populations in developing countries to urban industrialized ones have shown that industrialization is strongly correlated with patterns in human gut microbiota; however, we know little about the...
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