ArticleNature human behaviour2018
Social and population health science approaches to understand the human microbiome.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Meta-analysis of Gut Microbiota in Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Characterizing Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Disease in Oral HPV-Positive (COMP-HPV) individuals with HIV: an observational longitudinal study protocol.BMC oral health · 2026Observational
- Age-driven dysbiosis: gut microbiota in the pathogenesis and treatment of aging disorders.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Examining the healthy human microbiome concept.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025Review
- SIR+ models: accounting for interaction-dependent disease susceptibility in the planning of public health interventions.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The potential of including the microbiome as biomarker in population-based health studies: methods and benefits.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Social and psychological adversity are associated with distinct mother and infant gut microbiome variations.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status is associated with low diversity gut microbiomes and multi-drug resistant microorganism colonization.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2023Article
- Human microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity emerges as early as 3 months of age.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Altered gut microbiota in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a case-control study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Article
- The gut microbiota and depressive symptoms across ethnic groups.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Windows of Vulnerability: Consequences of Exposure Timing during the Dutch Hunger Winter.Population and development review · 2022Article
- From society to cells and back again: new opportunities for discovery at the biosocial interface.Discover social science and health · 2022Article
- Family SES Is Associated with the Gut Microbiome in Infants and Children.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- A biological framework for emotional dysregulation in alcohol misuse: from gut to brain.Molecular psychiatry · 2021Review
- Diversity Scaling Analysis of Chinese Gut Microbiomes Across Ethnicities and Lifestyles.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Infant Skin Bacterial Communities Vary by Skin Site and Infant Age across Populations in Mexico and the United States.mSystems · 2020Article
- From the micro to the macro to improve health: microorganism ecology and society in teaching infectious disease epidemiology.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2020Review
- Sick Individuals and Sick (Microbial) Populations: Challenges in Epidemiology and the Microbiome.Annual review of public health · 2020Article
- Probiotics and Psychobiotics: the Role of Microbial Neurochemicals.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
The microbiome is now considered our 'second genome' with potentially comparable importance to the genome in determining human health. There is, however, a relatively limited understanding of the broader environmental factors, particularly social conditions, that shape variation in human microbial communities. Fulfilling the promise of microbiome research - particularly the microbiome's potential for modification - will require collaboration between biologists and social and population scientists. For life scientists, the plasticity and adaptiveness of the microbiome calls for an agenda to understand the sensitivity of the microbiome to broader social environments already known to be powerful predictors of morbidity and mortality. For social and population scientists, attention to the microbiome may help answer nagging questions about the underlying biological mechanisms that link social conditions to health. We outline key substantive and methodological advances that can be made if collaborations between social and population health scientists and life scientists are strategically pursued.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.