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Differences in the composition of the gut microbial community have been associated with diseases such as obesity, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and colorectal cancer (CRC). We used 454 titanium pyrosequencing of the V1–V2 region of the 16S rRNA gene to characterize adherent bacterial communities in mucosal biopsy samples from 33 subjects with adenomas and 38 subjects without adenomas (controls). Biopsy samples from subjects with adenomas had greater numbers of bacteria from 87 taxa than controls; only 5 taxa were more abundant in control samples. The magnitude of the differences in the distal gut microbiota between patients with adenomas and controls was more pronounced than that of any other clinical parameters including obesity, diet or family history of CRC. This suggests that sequence analysis of the microbiota could be used to identify patients at risk for developing adenomas.
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This research was supported, in part, by grants from the National Institutes of Health NIH P30DK034987, R01 CA44684, P50 CA106991, R01 CA136887, K01 DK 073695. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers: All 454 pyrosequence data from this study have been submitted to Genbank database under the accession # SRS 166138.1-172960.2.
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Sanapareddy, N., Legge, R., Jovov, B. et al. Increased rectal microbial richness is associated with the presence of colorectal adenomas in humans. ISME J 6, 1858–1868 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.43
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