The East Asian gut microbiome is distinct from colocalized white subjects and connected to metabolic health
- University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Pennsylvania State University, United States
Abstract
Akkermansia muciniphila. East Asian subjects had increased levels of multiple bacterial phyla, fermentative pathways detected by metagenomics, and the short-chain fatty acid end-products acetate, propionate, and isobutyrate. Differences in the gut microbiota between the East Asian and White subjects could not be explained by dietary intake, were more pronounced in lean individuals, and were associated with current geographical location. Microbiome transplantations into germ-free mice demonstrated stable diet- and host genotype-independent differences between the gut microbiotas of East Asian and White individuals that differentially impact host body composition. Taken together, our findings add to the growing body of literature describing variation between ethnicities and provide a starting point for defining the mechanisms through which the microbiome may shape disparate health outcomes in East Asians.
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All 16S-seq and metagenomic sequencing data generated in the preparation of this manuscript have been deposited in NCBI's Sequence Read Archive under accession number PRJNA665061. Metabolomics results and metadata are available within this manuscript (Tables S2, S4, S5, and S9). Code for our manuscript will be uploaded to GitHub (https://github.com/turnbaughlab/2021_IDEO).
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IDEO Microbiome StudyNCBI Bioproject PRJNA665061.
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK114034)
- Peter J Turnbaugh
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK11230401)
- Suneil K Koliwad
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: Protocols for all experiments involving mice were approved by the University of California, San Francisco Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, and performed accordingly (UCSF IACUC numbers AN183950 and AN184143).
Human subjects: Informed consent was provided for all subjects participating in the study, which was approved by the UCSF Institutional Review Board.
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© 2021, Ang et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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The East Asian gut microbiome is distinct from colocalized white subjects and connected to metabolic health
eLife 10:e70349.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.70349
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