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ReviewGenome medicine2013

Functional profiling of the gut microbiome in disease-associated inflammation.

Daniela Börnigen, Xochitl C Morgan, Eric A Franzosa, Boyu Ren, Ramnik J Xavier, Wendy S Garrett, Curtis Huttenhower

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In one paragraph

Review in Genome medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Daniela BörnigenDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Xochitl C MorganDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Eric A FranzosaDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Boyu RenDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Ramnik J XavierThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA ; Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wendy S GarrettThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA ; Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Curtis HuttenhowerDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Broad Institute · USHarvard University · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Pilot & Feasibility ProgramP30DK043351 · NIDDK · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Ramnik J Xavier · 1991 to 2026
$35.3M
Gut microbiota and inflammatory monocytes in colorectal cancerR01CA154426 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI GARRETT, WENDY S. · 2011 to 2025
$5.2M
Autophagy genes and the microbiome in Crohn's DiseaseR01DK092405 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI XAVIER, RAMNIK J · 2012 to 2014
$2.0M
Disease Initation and the role of DCs in the TRUC Model of ulcerative colitisK08AI078942 · NIAID · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI GARRETT, WENDY S. · 2009 to 2013
$665k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA154426NIAID NIH HHS K08 AI078942NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK043351NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK092405
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The microbial residents of the human gut are a major factor in the development and lifelong maintenance of health. The gut microbiota differs to a large degree from person to person and has an important influence on health and disease due to its interaction with the human immune system. Its overall composition and microbial ecology have been implicated in many autoimmune diseases, and it represents a particularly important area for translational research as a new target for diagnostics and therapeutics in complex inflammatory conditions. Determining the biomolecular mechanisms by which altered microbial communities contribute to human disease will be an important outcome of current functional studies of the human microbiome. In this review, we discuss functional profiling of the human microbiome using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches, focusing on the implications for inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Common themes in gut microbial ecology have emerged among these diverse diseases, but they have not yet been linked to targetable mechanisms such as microbial gene and genome composition, pathway and transcript activity, and metabolism. Combining these microbial activities with host gene, transcript and metabolic information will be necessary to understand how and why these complex interacting systems are altered in disease-associated inflammation.

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PMID23906180
PMCPMC3978847
OpenAlexW2168439582

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