Identifying personal microbiomes using metagenomic codes

Community composition within the human microbiome varies across individuals, but it remains unknown if this variation is sufficient to uniquely identify individuals within large populations or stable enough to identify them over time. We investigated this by developing a hitting set-based coding alg...

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Published in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 112; no. 22; p. E2930
Main Authors:	Franzosa, Eric A, Huang, Katherine, Meadow, James F, Gevers, Dirk, Lemon, Katherine P, Bohannan, Brendan J M, Huttenhower, Curtis
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 02.06.2015
Subjects:	Confidentiality - standards Confidentiality - trends Genetic Markers - genetics Genetic Variation Humans Metagenomics - methods Microbiota - genetics Models, Genetic Precision Medicine - methods strain variation human microbiome microbial ecology metagenomics forensic genetics
ISSN:	1091-6490, 1091-6490
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