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Francesco Beghini retweeted
A new study found that we share parts of our microbiome with people in our social networks, beyond family members.
Dr. @NAChristakis joins us to discuss the research and how scientists can identify your friends—just by looking at your poop.
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Francesco Beghini retweeted
This work was supported by the NOMIS foundation, with additional support via @SchmidtFutures @ericschmidt @PershingSqFdn @BillAckman @JMRothberg. Underlying cohort supported by @gatesfoundation & @NIH. New support for work on the biology of social life at #HNL via @paulg. 19/
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News coverage of “Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks” via @nature is here: nature.com/articles/d41586-0… 17/
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It may prove to be the case that groups of inter-connected people might share phenotypes not only because of shared genes or transmitted behaviors, but also because of shared microbes. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 16/
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This work has implications for a radical idea: diseases formerly thought to be biologically non-communicable (e.g., obesity, depression, hypertension, arthritis, etc.) may actually be (somewhat!) communicable, via the spread of the microbiome. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 13/
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Clusters of microbiome species and strains occur within clusters of people in village social networks. It’s like clouds of microbes occurring within clusters of people. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… 11/
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Among 301 people in 4 villages whose microbiome was re-measured 2 years later, we observe greater convergence in gut microbiome strain-sharing in connected versus otherwise similar unconnected co-villagers. 10/
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We also observe that socially central people are more microbially similar to the overall village than socially peripheral people. But popular people resemble the microbiomes of individual friends less. 9/
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Furthermore, gut microbiome strain-sharing extends to one's friends’ friends within social networks, indicating the relevance of a person’s broader social network, at two degrees of separation. 8/
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We can actually predict who your friends are based on whether you have similar bacteria in your poop! And that metric outperforms other more usual social features, such as how you resemble your friends on a host of traits like age, sex, wealth, etc. 7/
Francesco Beghini retweeted
Using both species-level and strain-level data, we show that microbial sharing occurs in many relationship types, notably including non-familial and non-household connections. 6/
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"Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks" nature.com/articles/s41586-0… with @chocophlan, @JacksonPullman1, @mqdicer, @ShivkumarVs, @DrewPrinster, @adarshsingh110, RM Juárez, @eairoldi, @ilanabrito123 #HNL 2/
Francesco Beghini retweeted
One more time for the people in the back:
AI is a software wrapper around machine learning, machine learning is fancy words for statistics, thanks for coming to my TED talk
Francesco Beghini retweeted
Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages dlvr.it/T99Tcm
Francesco Beghini retweeted
Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors are associated with gut microbiome species
and strains in isolated Honduras villages. New #HNL work with @ShivkumarVs, @chocophlan @mqdicer A Singh, R Juarez, & @ilanabrito123 cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExt… #microbiome #LMICs
Francesco Beghini retweeted
Deeply sequenced microbiome data from non-industrialized settings are uncommon. In new #HNL work, we use metagenomic data from 1,871 people in 19 isolated Honduras villages to report associations between bacterial species and human phenotypes and factors. cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExt…
Francesco Beghini retweeted
Beside analysing nappies our mission is to share the joy of microbiome science by surprising our little helpers (nappy donors) w/GIANT microbes
Let us introduce our plushies
🔵Candidatus Cibionibacter quicibialis
🟡Catenibacterium tridentinum
©UniTrento Ph.Federico Nardelli
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Francesco Beghini retweeted
I wrote a blog post about scientific racism and the @AllofUsResearch figure illustrating their ancestry analysis. The post was inspired by a presentation of @DelaneyKSull at our lab DEI meeting organized by @NikhilaSwarna last week.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/20…
cc @AllofUsCEO
