Will Van Treuren

TL;DR: The results reveal that transmissible and modifiable interactions between diet and microbiota influence host biology and that adiposity is transmissible from human to mouse and that it was associated with changes in serum levels of branched-chain amino acids.

TL;DR: Comparing the microbial signatures between the ileum, the rectum, and fecal samples indicates that at this early stage of disease, assessing the rectal mucosal-associated microbiome offers unique potential for convenient and early diagnosis of CD.

TL;DR: Compared microbiotas across >1,000 fecal samples obtained from the TwinsUK population, many microbial taxa whose abundances were influenced by host genetics were identified.

TL;DR: The performance of ANCOM is illustrated using two publicly available microbial datasets in the human gut, demonstrating its general applicability to testing hypotheses about compositional differences in microbial communities and accounting for compositionality using log-ratio analysis results in significantly improved inference in microbiota survey data.

TL;DR: After a house move, the microbial community in the new house rapidly converged on the microbialcommunity of the occupants’ former house, suggesting rapid colonization by the family’s microbiota.