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CELL HOST & MICROBE
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 553-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.03.001
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- NIH (United States) [DK097153]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation (United States) Fellowship
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (United States)
- National Science Foundation (United States) Graduate Fellowship
- Hartwell Foundation (United States)
- Max Planck Society (Germany)
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Host genetic variation influences microbiome composition. While studies have focused on associations between the gut microbiome and specific alleles, gene copy number (CN) also varies. We relate microbiome diversity to CN variation of the AMY1 locus, which encodes salivary amylase, facilitating starch digestion. After imputing AMY1-CN for similar to 1,000 subjects, we identified taxa differentiating fecal microbiomes of high and low AMY1-CN hosts. In a month-long diet intervention study, we show that diet standardization drove gut microbiome convergence, and AMY1-CN correlated with oral and gut microbiome composition and function. The microbiomes of low-AMY1-CN subjects had enhanced capacity to break down complex carbohydrates. High-AMY1-CN subjects had higher levels of salivary Porphyromonas; their gut microbiota had increased abundance of resistant starch-degrading microbes, produced higher levels of short-chain fatty acids, and drove higher adiposity when transferred to germ-free mice. This study establishes AMY1-CN as a genetic factor associated with microbiome composition and function.
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