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L. Xu
Researcher at Broad Institute
Publications - 3
Citations - 257
L. Xu is an academic researcher from Broad Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Microbiome & Metagenomics. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 177 citations.
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Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales
Ilana L. Brito,Ilana L. Brito,S. Yilmaz,Katherine H. Huang,L. Xu,Stacy D. Jupiter,Aaron Jenkins,Waisea Naisilisili,Manu Tamminen,Christopher Smillie,Jennifer R. Wortman,Bruce W. Birren,Ramnik J. Xavier,Ramnik J. Xavier,Ramnik J. Xavier,Paul C. Blainey,Anup K. Singh,Dirk Gevers,Eric J. Alm,Eric J. Alm +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the function and distribution of mobile genes in the human microbiome, and in particular whether the gene pool is globally homogenous or constrained by human population structure.
Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales
Ilana L. Brito,Ilana L. Brito,S. Yilmaz,Katherine H. Huang,L. Xu,Stacy D. Jupiter,Aaron Jenkins,Waisea Naisilisili,Manu Tamminen,Christopher Smillie,Jennifer R. Wortman,Bruce W. Birren,Ramnik J. Xavier,Ramnik J. Xavier,Ramnik J. Xavier,Paul C. Blainey,Anup K. Singh,Dirk Gevers,Eric J. Alm,Eric J. Alm +19 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that human activities and behaviours provide selective pressures that shape mobile gene pools, and that acquisition of mobile genes is important for colonizing specific human populations, is supported.
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Corrigendum: Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales.
Ilana L. Brito,S. Yilmaz,Katherine H. Huang,L. Xu,Stacy D. Jupiter,Aaron Jenkins,Waisea Naisilisili,Manu Tamminen,Christopher Smillie,Jennifer R. Wortman,Bruce W. Birren,Ramnik J. Xavier,Paul C. Blainey,Anup K. Singh,Dirk Gevers,Eric J. Alm +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, Park et al. made several errors in the reference list order and the citations throughout the main text and the Methods, including the original ref. 6 (Parks et al., 2015) should have been cited as ref. 32 in the Methods.