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Comparison of phage and plasmid populations present in the gut microbiota of Parkinson’s disease patients
2023-10-23
Abstract excerpt
The aging population worldwide is on the rise, leading to a higher number of Parkinson’s disease (PD) cases each year. PD is presently the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, affecting an estimated 7-10 million individuals globally. This research aimed to identify mobile genetic elements in human fecal samples using a shotgun metagenomics approach. We found over 44,000 plasmid contigs and compared pla...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fe01ea18-5635-5462-b366-0145287b2b60
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.10.23.563061
