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Meta-Analysis Reveals Reproducible Gut Microbiome Alterations in Response to a High-Fat Diet

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Bisanz, Jordan E., Upadhyay, Vaibhav, Turnbaugh, Jessie A., Ly, Kimberly, Turnbaugh, Peter J.·2019·Cell Host & Microbe

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Multiple research groups have shown that diet impacts the gut microbiome; however, variability in experimental design and quantitative assessment have made it challenging to assess the degree to which similar diets have reproducible effects across studies. Through an unbiased subject-level meta-analysis framework, we re-analyzed 27 dietary studies including 1,101 samples from rodents and humans. We demonstrate that a high-fat diet (HFD) reproducibly changes gut microbial community structure. Finer taxonomic analysis revealed that the most reproducible signals of a HFD are Lactococcus species, which we experimentally demonstrate to be common dietary contaminants. Additionally, a machine-learning approach defined a signature that predicts the dietary intake of mice and demonstrated that phylogenetic and gene-centric transformations of this model can be translated to humans. Together, these results demonstrate the utility of microbiome meta-analyses in identifying robust and reproducible features for mechanistic studies in preclinical models.

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  • Variation in microbial profiling techniques may act as a confounding variable resulting in divergent findings due entirely to laboratory techniques rather than treatment.

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  • High-fat diets in animal studies reproducibly change gut microbial community structure, decreasing overall microbiota diversity and beneficial bacteria and increasing the Firmicutes:Bacteroidetes ratio and abundance of Enterobacteriales, Clostridium cluster XVIa, Mollicutes, and B. wadsworthia.

    “Similar to the Western diet, high-fat diets in animal studies reproducibly change gut microbial community structure, decreasing the overall microbiota diversity and beneficial bacteria (e.g., A. muciniphila, Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Lactococcus) and increasing the Firmicutes:Bacteroidetes ratio and the abundance of Enterobacteriales, Clostridium cluster XVIa, Mollicutes, and B. wadswort”

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Authors
Bisanz, J. E., Upadhyay, V., Turnbaugh, J. A., Ly, K., & Turnbaugh, P. J.
Affiliations
University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Turnbaugh, Peter J.
Venue
Cell Host & Microbe
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-08
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
265-272.e4
ISSN
1931-3128 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2959992540
Cited by
333
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 59 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 1
FWCI
3.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell Host & Microbe (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Kinship Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Gastroenterology › Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
Keywords
gut microbiota, high-fat diet, reproducibility, Lactococcus, food contaminants, machine learning, microbial community structure, preclinical models
MeSH terms
Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Machine Learning, Animals, Bacteria, Diet, Humans, Phylogeny, Databases, Factual, Lactococcus, Mice, Diet, High-Fat

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