Geographical patterns of the standing and active human gut microbiome in health and IBD

Conclusions
These analyses reveal important interactions of patients’ geographical origin and disease in the interpretation of disease-associated changes in microbial communities and highlight the added value of analysing communities on both the 16S rRNA gene (DNA) and transcript (RNA) level.

Source: Gut - January 6, 2016 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Rehman, A., Rausch, P., Wang, J., Skieceviciene, J., Kiudelis, G., Bhagalia, K., Amarapurkar, D., Kupcinskas, L., Schreiber, S., Rosenstiel, P., Baines, J. F., Ott, S. Tags: Crohn's disease Gut microbiota Source Type: research