Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences

Justin Kuczynski, Elizabeth K. Costello, Diana R. Nemergut, Jesse Zaneveld, Christian L. Lauber, Dan Knights, Omry Koren, Noah Fierer, Scott T. Kelley, Ruth E. Ley, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Rob Knight

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Abstract

Culture-independent studies of human microbiota by direct genomic sequencing reveal quite distinct differences among communities, indicating that improved sequencing capacity can be most wisely utilized to study more samples, rather than more sequences per sample.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number210
JournalGenome biology
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 5 2010

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Funding Information:
We thank the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the HHMI and the NIH for support of work by the authors cited in this review.

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