478: Babies Bear Bacterial Birthright

This episode: How family members share gut microbes across
multiple generations!


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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Dyozetapapillomavirus 1


Takeaways





Our gut’s microbial communities can greatly influence our
health, for good or bad. The makeup of these communities
can be influenced by many factors, including genetics,
health status, diet, and other aspects of the environment
we live in. We’ve learned a lot about this topic recently,
but there’s a lot more we still don’t understand.

In this study, gut microbe samples from individuals
spanning multiple generations in the same families were
compared, to see how much influence family relationships
and cohabitation could have on the gut communities. Both
genetic relationship and living together had influences on
which gut microbes different people shared.


 
Journal Paper:
Valles-Colomer M, Bacigalupe R, Vieira-Silva S, Suzuki S,
Darzi Y, Tito RY, Yamada T, Segata N, Raes J, Falony G. 2022.
Variation and transmission of the human gut microbiota across
multiple familial generations. 1. Nat Microbiol 7:87–96.

 


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