Crowdsourced study of children with autism and their typically developing siblings identifies differences in taxonomic and predicted function for stool-associated microbes using exact sequence variant analysis.
Maude M David, Christine Tataru, Jena Daniels, Jessey Schwartz, Jessica Keating, Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Neil Gottel, Jack A. Gilbert, Dennis P. Wall
The paper identifies microbial taxonomic and functional differences between children with autism and their typically developing siblings using 16S rRNA sequencing and exact sequence variant analysis.
bioRxiv · May 25, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology