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Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome

Overview of attention for article published in Genome Medicine, March 2017
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Title
Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome
Published in
Genome Medicine, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13073-017-0421-5
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Jennifer C. Stearns, Michael A. Zulyniak, Russell J. de Souza, Natalie C. Campbell, Michelle Fontes, Mateen Shaikh, Malcolm R. Sears, Allan B. Becker, Piushkumar J. Mandhane, Padmaja Subbarao, Stuart E. Turvey, Milan Gupta, Joseph Beyene, Michael G. Surette, Sonia S. Anand, for the NutriGen Alliance

Abstract

The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microorganisms soon after birth, and the composition of the microbiota is dynamic in the first year of life. Although a stable microbiome may not be established until 1 to 3 years after birth, the infant gut microbiota appears to be an important predictor of health outcomes in later life. We obtained stool at one year of age from 173 white Caucasian and 182 South Asian infants from two Canadian birth cohorts to gain insight into how maternal and early infancy exposures influence the development of the gut microbiota. We investigated whether the infant gut microbiota differed by ethnicity (referring to groups of people who have certain racial, cultural, religious, or other traits in common) and by breastfeeding status, while accounting for variations in maternal and infant exposures (such as maternal antibiotic use, gestational diabetes, vegetarianism, infant milk diet, time of introduction of solid food, infant birth weight, and weight gain in the first year). We demonstrate that ethnicity and infant feeding practices independently influence the infant gut microbiome at 1 year, and that ethnic differences can be mapped to alpha diversity as well as a higher abundance of lactic acid bacteria in South Asians and a higher abundance of genera within the order Clostridiales in white Caucasians. The infant gut microbiome is influenced by ethnicity and breastfeeding in the first year of life. Ethnic differences in the gut microbiome may reflect maternal/infant dietary differences and whether these differences are associated with future cardiometabolic outcomes can only be determined after prospective follow-up.

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Unknown 350 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 57 16%
Student > Bachelor 49 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 13%
Researcher 28 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 5%
Other 48 14%
Unknown 104 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 72 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 48 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 26 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 18 5%
Other 36 10%
Unknown 116 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. 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 26 August 2021.
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