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ArticleNature medicine2018

The influence of ethnicity and geography on human gut microbiome composition.

Christopher A Gaulke, Thomas J Sharpton

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Article in Nature medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

152 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Changes in Gut Microbiota and Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  12. Correlation analysis of gut microbiota and metabolites in gastric cancer patients in plateau areas based on multi-omics technologies.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  14. Functional changes in the gut microbiota are associated with the intestinal phenotype in A20 haploinsufficiency.Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Christopher A GaulkeDepartment of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
Thomas J SharptonDepartment of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. thomas.sharpton@oregonstate.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5996-7764

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeGastrointestinal TractMicrobiotaEthnicityGeographyHumans

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