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Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales.
Nature - 21 Jul 2016
Brito I L, Yilmaz S, Huang K, Xu L, Jupiter S D, Jenkins A P, Naisilisili W, Tamminen M, Smillie C S, Wortman J R, Birren B W, Xavier R J, Blainey P C, Singh A K, Gevers D, Alm E J
Abstract excerpt
Recent work has underscored the importance of the microbiome in human health, and has largely attributed differences in phenotype to differences in the species present among individuals. However, mobile genes can confer profoundly different phenotypes on different strains of the same species. Little is known about the function and distribution of mobile genes in the human microbiome, and in particular whether the...
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