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ArticleNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2026

Global analysis of infant gut microbiota revealed distinctive maturation dynamics across lifestyles.

Robert Bücking, Greta Pasquali, Ulrike Löber, Claudia Buss, Dorothee Viemann, Víctor Hugo Jarquín-Díaz, Sofia Kirke Forslund-Startceva

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Robert BückingMax-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany.
Greta PasqualiMax-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany.
Ulrike LöberMax-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany.
Claudia BussInstitute of Medical Psychology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.
Dorothee ViemannTranslational Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Víctor Hugo Jarquín-DíazMax-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany. VictorHugo.JarquinDiaz@mdc-berlin.de.
Sofia Kirke Forslund-StartcevaMax-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany. Sofia.Forslund@mdc-berlin.de.

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Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt 01EK2103BBundesministerium für Forschung und Technologie 01EK2103CDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 390874280Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft FO 1279/7-1HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme 101095540
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Abstract

The infant gut microbiome develops during the first years of life and influences long-term health through its interaction with immune system development. However, our understanding of early-life microbiome assembly is biased by the predominance of infants with industrialized lifestyles from North America and Europe. Here, we address this bias by assembling a globally representative dataset of 14,979 infant gut microbiomes from 2746 individuals to train a microbiome maturation model that can characterize lifestyle-specific patterns of microbial maturation as a function of age. Models trained exclusively on industrialized infants perform poorly when applied to non-industrialized datasets. In contrast, more diverse models, including individuals from both lifestyles, achieve increased correlation between microbial and chronological age (ΔR

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BacteriaGastrointestinal MicrobiomeLife StyleEuropeHumansInfantInfant, Newborn

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