Systematic Analysis of the Association between Gut Flora and Obesity through High-Throughput Sequencing and Bioinformatics Approaches

Eighty-one stool samples from Taiwanese were collected for analysis of the association between the gut flora and obesity. The supervised analysis showed that the most, abundant genera of bacteria in normal samples (from people with a body mass index (BMI) ≤ 24) were Bacteroides (27.7%), Prevotella (...

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Main Authors: Chih-Min Chiu, Wei-Chih Huang, Shun-Long Weng, Han-Chi Tseng, Chao Liang, Wei-Chi Wang, Ting Yang, Tzu-Ling Yang, Chen-Tsung Weng, Tzu-Hao Chang, Hsien-Da Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/906168