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An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

  • Junhua Li
  • , Huijue Jia
  • , Xianghang Cai
  • , Huanzi Zhong
  • , Qiang Feng
  • , Shinichi Sunagawa
  • , Manimozhiyan Arumugam
  • , Jens Roat Kultima
  • , Edi Prifti
  • , Trine Nielsen
  • , Agnieszka Sierakowska Juncker
  • , Chaysavanh Manichanh
  • , Bing Chen
  • , Wenwei Zhang
  • , Florence Levenez
  • , Juan Wang
  • , Xun Xu
  • , Liang Xiao
  • , Suisha Liang
  • , Dongya Zhang
  • Zhaoxi Zhang, Weineng Chen, Hailong Zhao, Jumana Yousuf Al-Aama, Sherif Edris, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Torben Hansen, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Søren Brunak, Karsten Kristiansen, Francisco Guarner, Oluf Pedersen, Joel Doré, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Peer Bork, Jun Wang, Nicolas Pons, Emmanuelle Le Chatelier, Jean Michel Batto, Sean Kennedy, Florence Haimet, Yohanan Winogradski, Eric Pelletier, Denis Lepaslier, François Artiguenave, Thomas Bruls, Jean Weissenbach, Keith Turner, Julian Parkhill, Maria Antolin, Francesc Casellas, Natalia Borruel, Encarna Varela, Antonio Torrejon, Gérard Denariaz, Muriel Derrien, Johan E.T. van Hylckama Vlieg, Patrick Viega, Raish Oozeer, Jan Knoll, Maria Rescigno, Christian Brechot, Christine M’rini, Alexandre Mérieux, Takuji Yamada, Sebastian Tims, Erwin G. Zoetendal, Michiel Kleerebezem, Willem M. de Vos, Antonella Cultrone, Marion Leclerc, Catherine Juste, Eric Guedon, Christine Delorme, Séverine Layec, Ghalia Khaci, Maarten van de Guchte, Gaetana Vandemeulebrouck, Alexandre Jamet, Rozenn Dervyn, Nicolas Sanchez, Hervé Blottière, Emmanuelle Maguin, Pierre Renault, Julien Tap, Daniel R. Mende
  • BGI-Shenzhen
  • BGI Hong Kong Research Institute
  • South China University of Technology
  • University of Copenhagen
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Hosp Valle De Hebron
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • Zhejiang University
  • Unité mixte de Recherche 14121 Microbiologie de l’Alimentation au Service de la Santé
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
  • Macau University of Science and Technology
  • Commissariat À L Energie Atomique
  • CNRS
  • CNRS-UMR8030 and Université Paris-Saclay
  • Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
  • Danone Research
  • Danone S.A.
  • IRCCS Istituto Europeo di Oncologia - Milano
  • BioMerieux
  • Wageningen University & Research
  • University of Helsinki

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Abstract

Many analyses of the human gut microbiome depend on a catalog of reference genes. Existing catalogs for the human gut microbiome are based on samples from single cohorts or on reference genomes or protein sequences, which limits coverage of global microbiome diversity. Here we combined 249 newly sequenced samples of the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHit) project with 1,018 previously sequenced samples to create a cohort from three continents that is at least threefold larger than cohorts used for previous gene catalogs. From this we established the integrated gene catalog (IGC) comprising 9,879,896 genes. The catalog includes close-to-complete sets of genes for most gut microbes, which are also of considerably higher quality than in previous catalogs. Analyses of a group of samples from Chinese and Danish individuals using the catalog revealed country-specific gut microbial signatures. This expanded catalog should facilitate quantitative characterization of metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metaproteomic data from the gut microbiome to understand its variation across populations in human health and disease.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)834-841
Number of pages8
JournalNature Biotechnology
Volume32
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2014
Externally publishedYes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

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