The biological importance and varied metabolic capabilities of specific microbial strains
have long been established in the scientific community. Strains have, in the past, been …

Studies of the human microbiome share both technical and conceptual similarities with
genome-wide association studies and genetic epidemiology. However, the microbiome has …

Studies of the microbiome have become increasingly sophisticated, and multiple sequence-
based, molecular methods as well as culture-based methods exist for population-scale …

A variety of microbial communities and their genes (the microbiome) exist throughout the
human body, with fundamental roles in human health and disease. The National Institutes of …

Humans are virtually identical in their genetic makeup, yet the small differences in our DNA
give rise to tremendous phenotypic diversity across the human population. By contrast, the …

The human genome has been referred to as the blueprint of human biology. In this review
we consider an essential but largely ignored overlay to that blueprint, the human …

Editorial summary Novel associations between the human microbiome and health and
disease are routinely emerging, and important host–microbiome interactions are targets for …

Background Understanding the normal temporal variation in the human microbiome is
critical to developing treatments for putative microbiome-related afflictions such as obesity …

A variety of microbial communities and their genes (microbiome) exist throughout the human
body, playing fundamental roles in human health and disease. The NIH funded Human …

Molecular techniques have revolutionized the practice of standard microbiology. In
particular, 16S rRNA sequencing, whole microbial genome sequencing and metagenomics …