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Gut microbiota diversity across ethnicities in the United States.
PLoS biology - 1 Dec 2018
Brooks Andrew W, Priya Sambhawa, Blekhman Ran, Bordenstein Seth R
Abstract excerpt
Composed of hundreds of microbial species, the composition of the human gut microbiota can vary with chronic diseases underlying health disparities that disproportionally affect ethnic minorities. However, the influence of ethnicity on the gut microbiota remains largely unexplored and lacks reproducible generalizations across studies. By distilling associations between ethnicity and differences in two US-based...
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