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A strategy to understand the microbial components of the human genetic and metabolic landscape and how they contribute to normal physiology and predisposition to disease.

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Figure 1: The concept of a core human microbiome.
Figure 2: Functional comparison of the gut microbiome with other sequenced microbiomes.

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  1. Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley and Jeffrey I. Gordon are at the Center for Genome Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA.,

    Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ruth E. Ley & Jeffrey I. Gordon

  2. Micah Hamady is at the Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.,

    Micah Hamady

  3. Claire M. Fraser-Liggett is at the Institute of Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA.,

    Claire M. Fraser-Liggett

  4. Rob Knight is at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.,

    Rob Knight

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