Xiaoping Li

TL;DR: MGWAS analysis showed that patients with type 2 diabetes were characterized by a moderate degree of gut microbial dysbiosis, a decrease in the abundance of some universal butyrate-producing bacteria and an increase in various opportunistic pathogens, as well as an enrichment of other microbial functions conferring sulphate reduction and oxidative stress resistance.

TL;DR: A metagenome-wide association study on stools from individuals with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and healthy controls is performed, identifying microbial strains and functions associated with the disease.

TL;DR: It is suggested that faecal microbiome-based strategies may be useful for early diagnosis and treatment of colorectal adenoma or carcinoma and high intake of red meat relative to fruits and vegetables appears to associate with outgrowth of bacteria that might contribute to a more hostile gut environment.

TL;DR: A catalog of the mouse gut metagenome comprising ∼2.6 million nonredundant genes by sequencing DNA from fecal samples of 184 mice is established, finding a core set of 26 metagenomic species found in 95% of the mice.

TL;DR: Differences in the abundance of butyrate and propionate producing bacteria in the gut may at least in part contribute to the observed differences in obesity propensity in Sv129 and BL6 mice.