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NATURE GENETICS
卷 45, 期 4, 页码 450-455出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2536
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- Australian Research Council
- Wellcome Trust [WT092799/Z/10/Z, WT098051]
- Sir Mark Mitchell Foundation
The importance of commensal microbes for human health is increasingly recognized(1-5), yet the impacts of evolutionary changes in human diet and culture on commensal microbiota remain almost unknown. Two of the greatest dietary shifts in human evolution involved the adoption of carbohydrate-rich Neolithic (farming) diets(6,7) (beginning similar to 10,000 years before the present(6,8)) and the more recent advent of industrially processed flour and sugar (in similar to 1850)(9). Here, we show that calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) on ancient teeth preserves a detailed genetic record throughout this period. Data from 34 early European skeletons indicate that the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming shifted the oral microbial community to a disease-associated configuration. The composition of oral microbiota remained unexpectedly constant between Neolithic and medieval times, after which (the now ubiquitous) cariogenic bacteria became dominant, apparently during the Industrial Revolution. Modern oral microbiotic ecosystems are markedly less diverse than historic populations, which might be contributing to chronic oral (and other) disease in postindustrial lifestyles.
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