| Literature DB >> 25299329 |
Dan Knights1, Tonya L Ward2, Christopher E McKinlay1, Hannah Miller3, Antonio Gonzalez4, Daniel McDonald4, Rob Knight5.
Abstract
Classification of the human gut microbiome into distinct types, or "enterotypes," provides an attractive framework for understanding microbial variation in health and disease. However, as discussed here, several different methods of collapsing enterotype variation into a few discrete clusters suggest that enterotype distribution is continuous and can vary widely within an individual.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25299329 PMCID: PMC5558460 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2014.09.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Host Microbe ISSN: 1931-3128 Impact factor: 21.023