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Meta-analysis of fecal metagenomes reveals global microbial signatures that are specific for colorectal cancer
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Association studies have linked microbiome alterations with many human diseases. However, they have not always reported consistent results, thereby necessitating cross-study comparisons. Here, a meta-analysis of eight geographically and technically diverse fecal shotgun metagenomic studies of colorectal cancer (CRC, n = 768), which was controlled for several confounders, identified a core set of 29 species significantly enriched in CRC metagenomes (false discovery rate (FDR) < 1 × 10−5). CRC signatures derived from single studies maintained their accuracy in other studies. By training on multiple studies, we improved detection accuracy and disease specificity for CRC. Functional analysis of CRC metagenomes revealed enriched protein and mucin catabolism genes and depleted carbohydrate degradation genes. Moreover, we inferred elevated production of secondary bile acids from CRC metagenomes, suggesting a metabolic link between cancer-associated gut microbes and a fat- and meat-rich diet. Through extensive validations, this meta-analysis firmly establishes globally generalizable, predictive taxonomic and functional microbiome CRC signatures as a basis for future diagnostics. Cross-study analysis defines fecal microbial species associated with colorectal cancer.
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“The lack of solid cross-study reproducible microbial biomarkers of ICI response is not attributable to analytical choices, as applying the same meta-analysis methods in the context of colorectal cancer confirmed the strong and consistent biomarkers across cohorts described elsewhere13,14.”
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“This signature, identified using both supervised machine learning and a meta-analysis, included the bacterial species Solobacterium moorei, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Parvimonas micra, Peptostreptococcus stomatis, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius and Gemella morbillorum”
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“Several taxonomic features associated with sequence variants of cutC were also found to be enriched in patients with CRC, including Hungatella hathewayi, Clostridium asparagiforme, Klebsiella oxytoca, and E coli.”
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“A meta-analysis of metagenomes of fecal samples146 found patients with CRC to have higher levels of 2 bacterial genes that regulate TMA synthesis: choline TMA-lyase (cutC) and choline TMA-lyase-activating enzyme (cutD).”
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“Moreover, the bai operon, encoding 7α-dehydroxylation in Clostridium spp. required for synthesis of secondary bile acids, was found to be enriched in metagenomes of fecal samples from patients with CRC.146”
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“This pattern has been found previously both with MetaPhlAn 2 (Thomas et al., 2019) and with mOTUs2 (Wirbel et al., 2019), in large part due to low-level detection of typically oral microbes in addition to the baseline gut microbiome during CRC.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wirbel, J., Pyl, P. T., Kartal, E., Zych, K., Kashani, A., Milanese, A., Fleck, J. S., Voigt, A. Y., Palleja, A., Ponnudurai, R., Sunagawa, S., Coelho, L. P., Schrotz-King, P., Vogtmann, E., Habermann, N., Niméus, E., Thomas, A. M., Manghi, P., Gandini, S., Serrano, D., Mizutani, S., Shiroma, H., Shiba, S., Shibata, T., Yachida, S., Yamada, T., Waldron, L., Naccarati, A., Segata, N., Sinha, R., Ulrich, C. M., Brenner, H., Arumugam, M., Bork, P., & Zeller, G.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University (CN)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Lund University (SE)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- University of Trento (IT)
- European Institute of Oncology (IT)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
- National Cancer Center Research Institute (JP)
- Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (JP)
- City University of New York (US)
- Italian institute for Genomic Medicine (IT)
- University of Utah (US)
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Arumugam, Manimozhiyan
- Zeller, Georg
- ORCID
- Wirbel, Jakob
- Pyl, Paul Theodor
- Kartal, Ece
- Zych, Konrad
- Milanese, Alessio
- Fleck, Jonas S.
- Voigt, Anita Y.
- Palleja, Albert
- Sunagawa, Shinichi
- Coelho, Luis Pedro
- Schrotz-King, Petra
- Vogtmann, Emily
- Niméus, Emma
- Thomas, Andrew M.
- Manghi, Paolo
- Gandini, Sara
- Serrano, Davide
- Mizutani, Sayaka
- Shiroma, Hirotsugu
- Shiba, Satoshi
- Shibata, Tatsuhiro
- Yachida, Shinichi
- Yamada, Takuji
- Waldron, Levi
- Naccarati, Alessio
- Segata, Nicola
- Sinha, Rashmi
- Ulrich, Cornelia M.
- Brenner, Hermann
- Arumugam, Manimozhiyan
- Bork, Peer
- Zeller, Georg
- Venue
- Nature Medicine
- Published
- 2019-04
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 679-689
- ISSN
- 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-170X
- PMC
- PMC7984229
- OpenAlex
- W2927453907
- Semantic Scholar
- 62b9cf8262232a54b36b08e6822fc0e815ce909a
- Cited by
- 1,373
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 214 · 2025: 215 · 2024: 224 · 2023: 189 · 2022: 176 · 2021: 169 · 2020: 143 · 2019: 41
- FWCI
- 11.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Iris (University of Trento) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MDC Repository (Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- The Mouseion at the JAXlibrary (Jackson Laboratory) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Huntsman Cancer Foundation
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
- Novo Nordisk
- Helmut Horten Stiftung
- National Institutes of Health
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (16H06279, 18K15800)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA189184, R01CA207371, ZIACP010198, P30CA042014, U01CA206110)
- H2020 European Research Council (669830, 716575)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Keywords
- colorectal cancer, gut microbiota, fecal metagenome, microbial signatures, cross-study comparison, protein degradation, carbohydrate degradation, secondary bile acids, cancer diagnosis
- MeSH terms
- Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Adenoma, Aged, Feces, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Biological, Species Specificity, Biomarkers, Tumor, Colorectal Neoplasms, Reproducibility of Results, Cohort Studies, Databases, Genetic, Metagenome
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