Unique Pakistani gut microbiota highlights population-specific microbiota signatures of type 2 diabetes mellitus
Afshan Saleem, Aamer Ikram, Evgenia Dikareva, Emilia Lahtinen, Dollwin Matharu, Anne‐Maria Pajari, Willem M. de Vos, Fariha Hasan, Anne Salonen, Ching Jian
Abstract
, limiting the inter-population extrapolation of gut microbiota-based classifiers for T2D. Taken together, our findings call for a more global representation of understudied populations to extend the applicability of microbiota-based diagnostics and therapeutics.
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BiologyGut floraPopulationMicrobiomeEvolutionary biologyZoologyGeneticsImmunologyDemographySociologyGut microbiota and healthClostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens researchColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection