Population structure of human gut bacteria in a diverse cohort from rural Tanzania and Botswana.
Matthew E B HansenMeagan A RubelAubrey G BaileyAlessia RanciaroSimon R ThompsonMichael C CampbellWilliam BeggsJaanki R DaveGaonyadiwe G MokoneSununguko Wata MpolokaThomas NyamboChristian AbnetStephen J ChanockFrederic D BushmanSarah A TishkoffPublished in: Genome biology (2019)
Across the cohort, similarity in bacterial presence/absence compositions between people increases with both geographic proximity and genetic relatedness, while abundance weighted bacterial composition varies more significantly with geographic proximity than with genetic relatedness.