An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

Item Type:	Article
Title:	An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome
Creators Name:	Li, J. and Jia, H. and Cai, X. and Zhong, H. and Feng, Q. and Sunagawa, S. and Arumugam, M. and Kultima, J.R. and Prifti, E. and Nielsen, T. and Juncker, A.S. and Manichanh, C. and Chen, B. and Zhang, W. and Levenez, F. and Wang, J. and Xu, X. and Xiao, L. and Liang, S. and Zhang, D. and Zhang, Z. and Chen, W. and Zhao, H. and Al-Aama, J.Y. and Edris, S. and Yang, H. and Wang, J. and Hansen, T. and Nielsen, H.B. and Brunak, S. and Kristiansen, K. and Guarner, F. and Pedersen, O. and Dore, J. and Ehrlich, S.D. and Bork, P. and Wang, J.
Abstract:	Many analyses of the human gut microbiome depend on a catalog of reference genes. Existing catalogs for the human gut microbiome are based on samples from single cohorts or on reference genomes or protein sequences, which limits coverage of global microbiome diversity. Here we combined 249 newly sequenced samples of the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHit) project with 1,018 previously sequenced samples to create a cohort from three continents that is at least threefold larger than cohorts used for previous gene catalogs. From this we established the integrated gene catalog (IGC) comprising 9,879,896 genes. The catalog includes close-to-complete sets of genes for most gut microbes, which are also of considerably higher quality than in previous catalogs. Analyses of a group of samples from Chinese and Danish individuals using the catalog revealed country-specific gut microbial signatures. This expanded catalog should facilitate quantitative characterization of metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic data from the gut microbiome to understand its variation across populations in human health and disease.
Keywords:	Catalogs as Topic, Intestines, Metagenomics, Microbiota
Source:	Nature Biotechnology
ISSN:	1087-0156
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
Volume:	32
Number:	8
Page Range:	834-841
Date:	August 2014
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2942
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