Metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota allows for type-2 diabetes risk and monitoring
A consortium around BGI Shenzen carried out analysis on gut microbial content in patients with type 2 diabetes and developed a protocol for a metagenome-wide association study (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 […]