Recently the Groningen Microbiome Team analyzed the gut microbiome of 7,738 participants of the Dutch Microbiome Project, a project within the Lifelines Dutch Biobank. We showed that human genes can influence the gut microbial composition. These results provide a new starting point for developing efficient personalized nutritional strategies to prevent diseases or to enhance the efficacy of some disease therapies. The results of the study and a preview of the expected challenges and future perspectives of microbiome studies were published in Nature Genetics.
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