Human gut virome

Here’s a new frontier in human biology—the gut virome.  Researchers at Ohio State University have compiled the first catalogue of our intestinal viruses, most of which are phages.  The list included 33,242 sequences that to not match up with any known references.  They concluded: “GVD meta-analyses show highly personalized viromes, reveal that inter-study variability from technical artifacts is larger than any “disease” effect at the population level, and document how viral diversity changes from human infancy into senescence.”  MORE

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