The nasal and gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.
Anna Heintz-BuschartUrvashi PandeyTamara WickeFriederike Sixel-DöringAnnette JanzenElisabeth Sittig-WiegandClaudia TrenkwalderWolfgang H OertelBrit MollenhauerPaul WilmesPublished in: Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society (2017)
Our study reveals differential abundances of gut microbial taxa in PD and its prodrome idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder in comparison to the healthy controls, and highlights the potential of metagenomics to identify and characterize microbial taxa, which are enriched or depleted in PD and/or idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder. © 2017 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.