What is it about?
The human microbiome consists of the microorganisms that live on and inside your body, which impact your health. How do those bugs come to be in the body in the first place? We set out to test how genes influence the microbiota in your mouth. We analyzed over 900 microbiome traits and identified six with strong evidence that genes were having an effect on, and then looked across the genome for variation that affected these.
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Why is it important?
This study is part of a larger effort by the scientific community to better understand how our microbiome is formed, its purpose, and how it is maintained so that we can nurture it to improve our overall health.
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This page is a summary of: Genetic influences on the human oral microbiome, BMC Genomics, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-017-4008-8.
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