Association between body mass index and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio in an adult Ukrainian population

Koliada, Alexander; Syzenko, Ganna; Moseiko, Vladislav; Budovska, Liudmyla; Puchkov, Kostiantyn; Perederiy, Vyacheslav; Gavalko, Yuriy; E. Dorofeyev, A.; Romanenko, Mariana; Tkach, S.M.; Sineok, Lyudmila; Lushchak, Oleh; Vaiserman, Alexander

doi:10.1186/s12866-017-1027-1

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Association between body mass index and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio in an adult Ukrainian population

Published in BMC Microbiology • May 22, 2017

Authors:

Alexander Koliada

Ganna Syzenko

Vladislav Moseiko

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Metagenomic studies confirm that obesity is associated with a composition of gut microbiota. There are some controversies, however, about the composition of gut microbial communities in obese individuals in different populations. To examine the association between body mass index and mic...

Subject

Firmicutes

Bacteroidetes

Biology

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