Twin studies reveal specific imbalances in the mucosaassociated microbiota of patients with ileal Crohn's disease

B Willing, J Halfvarson, J Dicksved… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background Large interindividual variation in the composition of the intestinal microbiota
between unrelated individuals has made it challenging to identify specific aspects of …

Siblings of patients with Crohn's disease exhibit a biologically relevant dysbiosis in mucosal microbial metacommunities

C Hedin, CJ Van Der Gast, GB Rogers, L Cuthbertson… - Gut, 2016 - gut.bmj.com
Objective To determine the existence of mucosal dysbiosis in siblings of patients with
Crohn's disease (CD) using 454 pyrosequencing and to comprehensively characterise and …

Molecular analysis of the gut microbiota of identical twins with Crohn's disease

J Dicksved, J Halfvarson, M Rosenquist… - The ISME …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence suggests that a combination of host genetics and the composition of the
gut microbiota are important for development of Crohn's disease (CD). Our aim was to study …

A pyrosequencing study in twins shows that gastrointestinal microbial profiles vary with inflammatory bowel disease phenotypes

BP Willing, J Dicksved, J Halfvarson, AF Andersson… - Gastroenterology, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS:: The composition of the gastrointestinal microbiota is thought to
have an important role in the etiology of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) such as …

Highlighting new phylogenetic specificities of Crohn's disease microbiota

S Mondot, S Kang, JP Furet… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background Recent studies suggest that gastrointestinal (GI) microbes play a part in the
pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD). Methods Fecal samples were collected from 16 …

Abnormal microbiota composition in the ileocolonic mucosa of Crohn's disease patients as revealed by polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel …

M Martinez-Medina, X Aldeguer… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background Bacteria might play a role in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD), and
patients harbor a different type and density of gut microbiota compared with normal healthy …

Biodiversity of the mucosa-associated microbiota is stable along the distal digestive tract in healthy individuals and patients with IBD

P Lepage, P Seksik, M Sutren… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background The mucosa-associated microbiota, being very close to the inflammatory
process associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), may have a pathogenic role. We …

Twin study indicates loss of interaction between microbiota and mucosa of patients with ulcerative colitis

P Lepage, R Häsler, ME Spehlmann, A Rehman… - Gastroenterology, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Interactions between genetic and environmental factors are
believed to be involved in onset and initiation of inflammatory bowel disease. We analyzed …

Dysbiosis of fecal microbiota in Crohn's disease patients as revealed by a custom phylogenetic microarray

S Kang, SE Denman, M Morrison, Z Yu… - Inflammatory bowel …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background A custom phylogenetic microarray composed of small subunit ribosomal RNA
probes, representing≈ 500 bacterial species from the human and animal gut, was …

A modular organization of the human intestinal mucosal microbiota and its association with inflammatory bowel disease

M Tong, X Li, L Wegener Parfrey, B Roth, A Ippoliti… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Abnormalities of the intestinal microbiota are implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's
disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), two spectra of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) …