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Obesity induces gut microbiota alterations and augments acute graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic stem cell transplantation [journal]
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Lam T Khuat, Catherine T Le, Chien-Chun Steven Pai, Robin R Shields-Cutler, Shernan G Holtan, Armin Rashidi, Sarah L Parker, Dan Knights (professor), Jesus I Luna, Cordelia Dunai, Ziming Wang, Ian R Sturgill, Kevin M Stoffel, Alexander A Merleev, Shyam K More, Emanual Maverakis, Helen E Raybould, Mingyi Chen, Robert J Canter, Arta M Monjazeb, Maneesh Dave, James LM Ferrara, John E Levine, Dan L Longo, Mehrdad Abedi, Bruce R Blazar, William J Murphy
Science Translational Medicine
Alteration of the Gut Microbiome in Normal and Overweight School Children from Selangor with Lactobacillus Fermented Milk Administration [journal]
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Narcisse Joseph, Jonathan B Clayton (postdoctoral associate), Susan L Hoops (Ph.D. student), Carter A Linhardt, Amalia Mohd Hashim, Barakatun Nisak Mohd Yusof, Suresh Kumar, Syafinaz Amin Nordin
Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Shotgun sequencing of the faecal microbiome to predict response to steroids in patients with lower gastrointestinal acute graft-versus-host disease: An exploratory analysis [journal]
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Gavin Turner, Madeline Smith, Andrea L Hoeschen, Jessica A Wilson, Jessica Kennedy, Max Abramson, Qing Cao, Najla El Jurdi, Margaret L MacMillan, Daniel J Weisdorf, Bruce R Blazar, Alexander Khoruts, Robin R Shields-Cutler, Dan Knights (professor), Shernan G Holtan, Armin Rashidi
British Journal of Haematology
A Detailed View of KIR Haplotype Structures and Gene Families as Provided by a New Motif-Based Multiple Sequence Alignment [journal]
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David Roe (BICB Ph.D. student), Cynthia Vierra-Green, Chul-Woo Pyo, Daniel E. Geraghty, Stephen R. Spellman, Martin Maiers, Rui Kuang (associate professor)
Frontiers in Immunology
Corn bran fiber modulates gut microbiota in individuals with overweight and obesity [preprint]
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Nguyen K Nguyen, Edward C Deehan, Zhengxiao Zhang, Mingliang Jin, Nami Baskota, Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz, Janis Cole, Yunus E Tuncil, Benjamin Seethaler, Ting Wang, Martine Laville, Nathalie M Delzenne, Stephan C Bischoff, Bruce R Hamaker, Inés Martínez, Dan Knights (professor), Jeffrey A Bakal, Carla M Prado, Jens Walter
Metagenomic Information Recovery from Human Stool Samples Is Influenced by Sequencing Depth and Profiling Method [journal]
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Tasha M Santiago-Rodriguez, Aaron Garoutte, Emmase Adams, Waleed Nasser, Matthew C Ross, Alex La Reau, Zachariah Henseler, Tonya Ward, Dan Knights (professor), Joseph F Petrosino, Emily B Hollister
Genes
A potential role for stress-induced microbial alterations in IgA-associated irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea [journal]
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Sunaina Rengarajan, Kathryn A Knoop, Arvind Rengarajan, Jiani N Chai, Jose G Grajales-Reyes, Vijay K Samineni, Emilie V Russler-Germain, Prabha Ranganathan, Alessio Fasano, Gregory S Sayuk, Robert W Gereau IV, Andrew L Kau, Dan Knights (professor), Purna C Kashyap, Matthew A Ciorba, Rodney D Newberry, Chyi-Song Hsieh
Cell Reports Medicine
Prokaryote autoimmunity in the context of self-targeting by CRISPR-Cas systems [journal]
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Tatiana Lenskaia (BICB Ph.D. student), Daniel Boley (professor)
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Efficient Sequencing, Assembly, and Annotation of Human KIR Haplotypes [journal]
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David Roe (BICB Ph.D. student), Jonathan Williams, Keyton Ivery, Jenny Brouckaert, Nick Downey, Chad Locklear, Rui Kuang (associate professor), Martin Maiers
Frontiers in Immunology
Interaction of bacterial metagenome and virome in patients with cirrhosis and hepatic encephalopathy [journal]
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Jasmohan S Bajaj, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Amirhossein Shamsaddini, Zachariah Henseler, Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez, Chathur Acharya, Andrew Fagan, Phillip B Hylemon, Michael Fuchs, Edith Gavis, Tonya Ward, Dan Knights (professor), Patrick M Gillevet