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A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, September 2012
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Title
A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes
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Nature, September 2012
DOI 10.1038/nature11450
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Authors

Junjie Qin, Yingrui Li, Zhiming Cai, Shenghui Li, Jianfeng Zhu, Fan Zhang, Suisha Liang, Wenwei Zhang, Yuanlin Guan, Dongqian Shen, Yangqing Peng, Dongya Zhang, Zhuye Jie, Wenxian Wu, Youwen Qin, Wenbin Xue, Junhua Li, Lingchuan Han, Donghui Lu, Peixian Wu, Yali Dai, Xiaojuan Sun, Zesong Li, Aifa Tang, Shilong Zhong, Xiaoping Li, Weineng Chen, Ran Xu, Mingbang Wang, Qiang Feng, Meihua Gong, Jing Yu, Yanyan Zhang, Ming Zhang, Torben Hansen, Gaston Sanchez, Jeroen Raes, Gwen Falony, Shujiro Okuda, Mathieu Almeida, Emmanuelle LeChatelier, Pierre Renault, Nicolas Pons, Jean-Michel Batto, Zhaoxi Zhang, Hua Chen, Ruifu Yang, Weimou Zheng, Songgang Li, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Rasmus Nielsen, Oluf Pedersen, Karsten Kristiansen, Jun Wang

Abstract

Assessment and characterization of gut microbiota has become a major research area in human disease, including type 2 diabetes, the most prevalent endocrine disease worldwide. To carry out analysis on gut microbial content in patients with type 2 diabetes, we developed a protocol for a metagenome-wide association study (MGWAS) and undertook a two-stage MGWAS based on deep shotgun sequencing of the gut microbial DNA from 345 Chinese individuals. We identified and validated approximately 60,000 type-2-diabetes-associated markers and established the concept of a metagenomic linkage group, enabling taxonomic species-level analyses. MGWAS analysis showed that patients with type 2 diabetes were characterized by a moderate degree of gut microbial dysbiosis, a decrease in the abundance of some universal butyrate-producing bacteria and an increase in various opportunistic pathogens, as well as an enrichment of other microbial functions conferring sulphate reduction and oxidative stress resistance. An analysis of 23 additional individuals demonstrated that these gut microbial markers might be useful for classifying type 2 diabetes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 36 <1%
United Kingdom 12 <1%
Denmark 7 <1%
Russia 7 <1%
Germany 7 <1%
Netherlands 6 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Mexico 5 <1%
France 5 <1%
Other 57 1%
Unknown 4253 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 847 19%
Researcher 714 16%
Student > Master 617 14%
Student > Bachelor 480 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 224 5%
Other 650 15%
Unknown 869 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1172 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 748 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 528 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 265 6%
Computer Science 102 2%
Other 553 13%
Unknown 1033 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 458. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2024.
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#60,171
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Outputs from Nature
#4,773
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