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INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES
Volume 19, Issue 13, Pages 2906-2918Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1097/01.MIB.0000435759.05577.12
Keywords
microbiota; IBD; metagenomic; ethnic; geography
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- Broad Foundation
- Murdoch Childrens Research Institution
- Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- St Vincent's Research Endowment Fund
- CSIRO's Transformational Biology Capability Platform grants scheme
- Preventative Health National Research Flagship Program
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Background:The gut microbiota is central to health and disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease. Differences in microbiota related to geography and ethnicity may hold the key to recent changes in the incidence of microbiota-related disorders.Methods:Gut mucosal microbiota was analyzed in 190 samples from 87 Caucasian and Chinese subjects, from Australia and Hong Kong, comprising 22 patients with Crohn's disease, 30 patients with ulcerative colitis, 29 healthy controls, and 6 healthy relatives of patients with Crohn's disease. Bacterial 16S rRNA microarray and 454 pyrosequencing were performed.Results:The microbiota was diverse in health, regardless of ethnicity or geography (operational taxonomic unit number and Shannon diversity index). Ethnicity and geography, however, did affect microbial composition. Crohn's disease resulted in reduced bacterial diversity, regardless of ethnicity or geography, and was the strongest determinant of composition. In ulcerative colitis, diversity was reduced in Chinese subjects only, suggesting that ethnicity is a determinant of bacterial diversity, whereas composition was determined by disease and ethnicity. Specific phylotypes were different between health and disease. Chinese patients with inflammatory bowel disease more often than healthy Chinese tended to have had a Western diet in childhood, in the East and West.Conclusion:The healthy microbiota is diverse but compositionally affected by geographical and ethnic factors. The microbiota is substantially altered in inflammatory bowel disease, but ethnicity may also play an important role. This may be key to the changing epidemiology in developing countries, and emigrants to the West.
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