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The Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Status and the Future Ahead

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Kostic, Aleksandar D., Xavier, Ramnik J., Gevers, Dirk·2014·Gastroenterology

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Studies of the roles of microbial communities in the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have reached an important milestone. A decade of genome-wide association studies and other genetic analyses have linked IBD with loci that implicate an aberrant immune response to the intestinal microbiota. More recently, profiling studies of the intestinal microbiome have associated the pathogenesis of IBD with characteristic shifts in the composition of the intestinal microbiota, reinforcing the view that IBD results from altered interactions between intestinal microbes and the mucosal immune system. Enhanced technologies can increase our understanding of the interactions between the host and its resident microbiota and their respective roles in IBD from both a large-scale pathway view and at the metabolic level. We review important microbiome studies of patients with IBD and describe what we have learned about the mechanisms of intestinal microbiota dysfunction. We describe the recent progress in microbiome research from exploratory 16S-based studies, reporting associations of specific organisms with a disease, to more recent studies that have taken a more nuanced view, addressing the function of the microbiota by metagenomic and metabolomic methods. Finally, we propose study designs and methodologies for future investigations of the microbiome in patients with inflammatory gut and autoimmune diseases in general.

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Authors
Kostic, A. D., Xavier, R. J., & Gevers, D.
Affiliations
Broad Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Xavier, Ramnik J.
Venue
Gastroenterology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-05
Volume
146
Issue
6
Pages
1489-1499
ISSN
0016-5085 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2152751713
Cited by
1,789
References
123
Citations by year
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FWCI
13.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Gastroenterology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America
  • National Institutes of Health (U54 DE023798, R01 DK092405)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Microscopic Colitis
Keywords
inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, host-microbe interactions, mucosal immunity, dysbiosis, 16S rRNA gene profiling, metagenomics, metabolomics, autoimmune disease
MeSH terms
Animals, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Bacteria, Humans, Intestines, Risk Factors, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Immunity, Mucosal, Probiotics, Metagenome, Metagenomics, Microbiota

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