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public: 831
private: 177
sandbox: 2,768
submitted to EBI: 914
public: 411,466
private: 121,006
sandbox: 606,529
submitted to EBI: 343,131
submitted to EBI (prep): 397,952
16S: 374,261
18S: 12,149
ITS: 14,649
Metagenomic: 68,280
Full Length Operon: 803
Metatranscriptomic: 26,395
Metabolomic: 1,545
Genome Isolate: 1,131
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Gut microbiota and fecal short chain fatty acids differ with adiposity and country of origin: The METS-Microbiome Study

The relationship between gut microbiota, short chain fatty acid (SCFA) metabolism, and obesity is still not well understood. Here we investigate these associations in a large African origin cohort from Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica, Seychelles, and the US. Fecal microbiota diversity and SCFA concentration are greatest in Ghanaians, and lowest in the US population, representing the lowest and highest end of the epidemiologic transition spectrum, respectively. Obesity is significantly associated with a reduction in SCFA concentration, microbial diversity and SCFA synthesizing bacteria. Country of origin can be accurately predicted from the fecal microbiota while the predictive accuracy for obesity is inversely correlated to the epidemiological transition, being greatest in Ghana. The findings suggest that the microbiota differences between obesity and non-obesity may be larger in low-to-middle-income countries compared to high-income countries. Further investigation is needed to determine the factors driving this association.


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