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American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research

Daniel T. McDonald, Embriette R. Hyde, Justine W. Debelius, James T. Morton, Antonio Gonzalez, Gail L. Ackermann, Alexander A. Aksenov, Bahar Behsaz, Caitriona Brennan, Yingfeng Chen, Lindsay DeRight Goldasich, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Robert R. Dunn, Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, James Gaffney

mSystems · 2018 · ▲ 924 citations

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Abstract

We show that a citizen science, self-selected cohort shipping samples through the mail at room temperature recaptures many known microbiome results from clinically collected cohorts and reveals new ones. Of particular interest is integrating n = 1 study data with the population data, showing that the extent of microbiome change after events such as surgery can exceed differences between distinct environmental biomes, and the effect of diverse plants in the diet, which we confirm with untargeted metabolomics on hundreds of samples.

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DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00031-18
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McDonald, D.T., Hyde, E.R., Debelius, J.W., Morton, J.T., Gonzalez, A., Ackermann, G.L., Aksenov, A.A., Behsaz, B., Brennan, C., Chen, Y., Goldasich, L.D., Dorrestein, P.C., Dunn, R.R., Fahimipour, A.K., Gaffney, J., Gilbert, J.A., Gogul, G., Green, J.L., Hugenholtz, P., & Humphrey, G.C. (2018). American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research. <em>mSystems</em>. https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00031-18

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McDonald DT, Hyde ER, Debelius JW, Morton JT, Gonzalez A, Ackermann GL, et al. American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research. mSystems. 2018. doi:10.1128/msystems.00031-18.

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@article{daniel2018Americ, title = {American Gut: an Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research}, author = {Daniel T. McDonald and Embriette R. Hyde and Justine W. Debelius and James T. Morton and Antonio Gonzalez and Gail L. Ackermann and Alexander A. Aksenov and Bahar Behsaz and Caitriona Brennan and Yingfeng Chen and Lindsay DeRight Goldasich and Pieter C. Dorrestein and Robert R. Dunn and Ashkaan K. Fahimipour and James Gaffney and Jack A. Gilbert and Grant Gogul and Jessica L. Green and Philip Hugenholtz and Greg C. Humphrey and Curtis Huttenhower and Matthew A Jackson and Stefan Janssen and Dilip V. Jeste and Lingjing Jiang}, journal = {mSystems}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.1128/msystems.00031-18}, }