Human microbiome studies have exploded in number in recent years with the advent of high-throughput sequencing methods.The dramatic increase in sensitivity facilitated by deep-sequencing capability has led to hundreds...Human microbiome studies have exploded in number in recent years with the advent of high-throughput sequencing methods.The dramatic increase in sensitivity facilitated by deep-sequencing capability has led to hundreds of studies characterizing microbial communities in multiple human tissues,as well as the relationships between the composition of these communities and disease.展开更多
基金This work was supported by US National Institutes of Health(NIH)grants R01LM013067,R01CA217992,and R21CA248138 to T.L.
文摘Human microbiome studies have exploded in number in recent years with the advent of high-throughput sequencing methods.The dramatic increase in sensitivity facilitated by deep-sequencing capability has led to hundreds of studies characterizing microbial communities in multiple human tissues,as well as the relationships between the composition of these communities and disease.