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ArticleCell2016

Microbial Skin Inhabitants: Friends Forever.

Pieter C Dorrestein, Richard L Gallo, Rob Knight

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Article in Cell, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Host-Microbiome Interactions in Chronic Itch.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  4. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023
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  8. Dynamics of Skin Mycobiome in Infants.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pieter C DorresteinCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Richard L GalloUC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Rob KnightUC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: rknight@ucsd.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To gain insight into the stability of the microbial communities that inhabit our skin, Oh et al., in a tour-de-force effort, map the human skin metagenomes over time. Remarkably, their data indicate that the individual, not the environment, primarily drives the composition of skin microbial communities.

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FriendsMetagenomeEnvironmentHumansSkin

Identifiers

PMID27153488

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