Metagenomic Analysis of Common Intestinal Diseases Reveals Relationships among Microbial Signatures and Powers Multidisease Diagnostic Models

Gut microbes have been identified as potential markers in distinguishing patients from controls in colorectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease individually, whereas there lacks a systematic analysis to investigate the exclusive microbial shifts of these enteropathies with similar cli...

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Main Authors: Puzi Jiang, Sicheng Wu, Qibin Luo, Xing-ming Zhao, Wei-Hua Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-06-01
Series:mSystems
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00112-21
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Summary:Gut microbes have been identified as potential markers in distinguishing patients from controls in colorectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease individually, whereas there lacks a systematic analysis to investigate the exclusive microbial shifts of these enteropathies with similar clinical symptoms. Our meta-analysis and cross-disease comparisons identified consistent microbial alterations in each enteropathy, revealed microbial ecosystems among marker bacteria in distinct states, and demonstrated the necessity and feasibility of metagenome-based multidisease classifications.
ISSN:2379-5077