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Biodiversity and biogeography of the multi-kingdom cancer microbiome.
Cell - 11 Jun 2026
Dohlman Anders B, Mjelle Robin, Wood Henry M, Jiang Kevin, Shumate Alaina, Lee Iris, Piccinno Gianmarco, Serna Garazi, Yakubu Abdul-Rakeem, Nuciforo Paolo, Quirke Phil, Huttenhower Curtis, Segata Nicola, Meyerson Matthew
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Microorganisms represent an important component of the tumor microenvironment, but conflicting reports have left the extent of microbial prevalence across cancer types unclear, necessitating more robust methods for characterizing tumor-associated microbiomes. We built and benchmarked a host-subtraction and classification pipeline to identify microbiota in whole-genome sequencing data and applied it to 16,369...
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