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Environment dominates over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota

2018-09-11

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Up to now, it was thought that genetics would play a major role in shaping the gut flora. However, this study, in a cohort of 1,046 healthy Israeli individuals with a well-defined clinical phenotype, suggests that only 2-8% of human microbiome variability is explained by genetics, as compared to 92-98% explained by environmental influences. This study shows that the microbiome is not significantly associated with...

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Literature Corpus work: 7739816b-baf9-55a2-aec5-a1c2c5b781b3
DOI: 10.1530/ey.15.14.5

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