TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking enterotypes
AU - Knights, Dan
AU - Ward, Tonya L.
AU - McKinlay, Christopher E.
AU - Miller, Hannah
AU - Gonzalez, Antonio
AU - McDonald, Daniel
AU - Knight, Rob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2014/10/8
Y1 - 2014/10/8
N2 - Classification of the human gut microbiome into distinct types, or "enterotypes," provides an attractive framework for understanding microbial variation in health and disease. However, as discussed here, several different methods of collapsing enterotype variation into a few discrete clusters suggest that enterotype distribution is continuous and can vary widely within an individual.
AB - Classification of the human gut microbiome into distinct types, or "enterotypes," provides an attractive framework for understanding microbial variation in health and disease. However, as discussed here, several different methods of collapsing enterotype variation into a few discrete clusters suggest that enterotype distribution is continuous and can vary widely within an individual.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chom.2014.09.013
DO - 10.1016/j.chom.2014.09.013
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 25299329
AN - SCOPUS:84908067044
SN - 1931-3128
VL - 16
SP - 433
EP - 437
JO - Cell Host and Microbe
JF - Cell Host and Microbe
IS - 4
ER -