Journal
NUTRITION REVIEWS
Volume 70, Issue -, Pages S38-S44Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2012.00493.x
Keywords
human microbiome; microbial diversity; 16S rRNA sequencing
Categories
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [HG4872]
- Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Rapidly developing sequencing methods and analytical techniques are enhancing our ability to understand the human microbiome, and, indeed, how the microbiome and its constituents are defined. This review highlights recent research that expands our ability to understand the human microbiome on different spatial and temporal scales, including daily time series datasets spanning months. Furthermore, emerging concepts related to defining operational taxonomic units, diversity indices, core versus transient microbiomes, and the possibility of enterotypes are discussed. Additional advances in sequencing technology and in our understanding of the microbiome will provide exciting prospects for exploiting the microbiota for personalized medicine.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available