Fecal microbial load is a major determinant of gut microbiome variation and a confounder for disease associations
Suguru Nishijima, Evelina Stankevič, Oliver Aasmets, Thomas Schmidt, Naoyoshi Nagata, Marisa Isabell Keller, Pamela Ferretti, Helene Bæk Juel, Anthony Fullam, Shahriyar Mahdi Robbani, Christian Schudoma, Johanne Kragh Hansen, Louise Aas Holm, Mads Egerod Israelsen, Robert Schierwagen, , Cristina Legido‐Quigley
This study shows that fecal microbial load, not disease, is the main driver of gut microbiome changes and identifies it as a major confounder in microbiome studies.
Cell · Nov 13, 2024Peer-reviewedMicrobiology