S. Donovan

Decoupling diet from microbiome dynamics results in model mis-specification that implicitly annuls potential associations between the microbiome and disease phenotypes-ruling out any role of the microbiome in autism (Yap et al. 2021) likely a premature conclusion

The paper critiques Yap et al.'s analysis of diet and microbiome associations with autism, showing their model's assumption of independence between diet and microbiome leads to incorrect conclusions about microbiome's role in autism.

Multi-omic analysis along the gut-brain axis points to a functional architecture of autism

The paper identifies a functional architecture of autism along the gut-brain axis using multi-omic data, revealing microbial and metabolic profiles linked to autism symptoms.