Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Network analysis of species abundance across different individuals suggested that the overall structure of the human gut microbiota in each individual conforms to discrete and distinct patterns defined by interactions within community members. This hypothesis was investigated using a dataset of metagenomic sequences from American, European and Japanese individuals. Multidimensional cluster analysis and principal component analysis revealed that all individual sampl...

Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a progressive disease. The gut microbiota has recently been identified as a new potential diabetes risk factor.Design: To investigate the gut microbiota composition in association with the dietary patterns in patients with different glucose tolerance we analyzed 92 patients: with normal glucose tolerance (n=48), prediabetes (n=24) and T2D (n=20). Metagenomic analysis was performed using 16Sr...