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Alterations of the human gut microbiome in liver cirrhosis
Abstract
Liver cirrhosis occurs as a consequence of many chronic liver diseases that are prevalent worldwide. Here we characterize the gut microbiome in liver cirrhosis by comparing 98 patients and 83 healthy control individuals. We build a reference gene set for the cohort containing 2.69 million genes, 36.1% of which are novel. Quantitative metagenomics reveals 75,245 genes that differ in abundance between the patients and healthy individuals (false discovery rate < 0.0001) and can be grouped into 66 clusters representing cognate bacterial species; 28 are enriched in patients and 38 in control individuals. Most (54%) of the patient-enriched, taxonomically assigned species are of buccal origin, suggesting an invasion of the gut from the mouth in liver cirrhosis. Biomarkers specific to liver cirrhosis at gene and function levels are revealed by a comparison with those for type 2 diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. On the basis of only 15 biomarkers, a highly accurate patient discrimination index is created and validated on an independent cohort. Thus microbiota-targeted biomarkers may be a powerful tool for diagnosis of different diseases.
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“Studies in the past few years have demonstrated profound alterations of the intestinal microbiota in patients with cirrhosis, showing increased Enterobacteriacea as well as strains that are typically found in the oral microbiota, such as Veillonellaceae and Streptococcaceae, consistent with an invasion of microorganisms from the mouth to the gut in liver cirrhosis32,33.”
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“Metagenomic studies have revealed substantial alterations in the composition of the gut microbiota in a range of CLD as well as in patients with cirrhosis12,32.”
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“Key changes in the composition of the intestinal microbiota in cirrhosis include enrichment of Veillonella or Streptococcus as well as decreased bacteria from the order Clostridiales32.”
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“Of note, the majority of the patient-enriched species were of buccal origin, suggesting an invasion of the gut from the mouth in liver cirrhosis32.”
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“The gut microbiomes of patients with advanced liver disease and cirrhosis are characterized by an increase in potentially pathogenic bacteria, along with reduced numbers of bacteria with beneficial properties32,84,85.”
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“Changes in the composition of the oral microbiome and the colonisation of the lower intestinal tract by oral-specific bacteria has been related to cirrhosis49.”
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“Increased presence of Prevotella has been found in cirrhotics49”
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- Authors
- Qin, N., Yang, F., Li, A., Prifti, E., Chen, Y., Shao, L., Guo, J., Le Chatelier, E., Yao, J., Wu, L., Zhou, J., Ni, S., Liu, L., Pons, N., Batto, J. M., Kennedy, S. P., Leonard, P., Yuan, C., Ding, W., Chen, Y., Hu, X., Zheng, B., Qian, G., Xu, W., Ehrlich, S. D., Zheng, S., & Li, L.
- Affiliations
- First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University (CN)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Guy's Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ehrlich, S. Dusko
- Zheng, Shusen
- Li, Lanjuan
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-07-23
- Volume
- 513
- Issue
- 7516
- Pages
- 59-64
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1964027278
- Cited by
- 2,177
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 136 · 2025: 174 · 2024: 215 · 2023: 214 · 2022: 226 · 2021: 283 · 2020: 235 · 2019: 201 · 2018: 161 · 2017: 136 · 2016: 98 · 2015: 83 · 2014: 10
- FWCI
- 44.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-DPBS-0001)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hepatology › Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Keywords
- liver cirrhosis, gut microbiota, microbiome biomarkers, oral bacteria, Veillonella, Streptococcus, diagnostic biomarkers, novel genes, type 2 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease
- MeSH terms
- Chronic Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Feces, Genetic Markers, Health, Humans, Liver Cirrhosis, Mouth, Phylogeny, Reproducibility of Results, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Case-Control Studies, Gastrointestinal Tract, Metagenomics, Microbiota
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