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Research Project: Impact of Diet on Intestinal Microbiota, Gut Health and Immune Function

Location: Immunity and Disease Prevention Research

Title: Usda-ars cross-sectional nutritional phenotyping study gut microbiota

Author
item Kable, Mary
item Stephensen, Charles

Submitted to: European Nucleotide Archive
Publication Type: Database / Dataset
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/11/2022
Publication Date: 2/9/2023
Citation: Kable, M.E., Stephensen, C.B. 2023. Usda-ars cross-sectional nutritional phenotyping study gut microbiota. European Nucleotide Archive. PRJEB53463. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB53463.

Interpretive Summary: Sequencing data from a marker gene survey of microbial communities in healthy US adult guts is being submitted to public repositories.

Technical Abstract: Researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Western Human Nutrition Research Center conducted a cross-sectional "metabolic phenotyping" study of healthy people in a multi-ethnic cohort balanced for age (18–65 years), sex, and BMI (18.5–45 kg/m2). Details on study endpoints are available at ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02367287. A single stool sample was collected from 365 participants, transported to the Center on ice, homogenized and frozen at -80 C until DNA extraction. Bacterial DNA was extracted from 100mg of stool using the ZymoBIOMICS DNA Miniprep Kit. Samples with low DNA yield or quality were re-extracted using a lower sample volume (50 – 20 mg) to reduce inhibitor content. Extracted DNA was submitted to Dalhousie University Integrated Microbiome Resource for amplification of the 16S rRNA V4 – V5 region (using primers 515F, GTGYCAGCMGCCGCGGTAA, and 926R, CCGYCAATTYMTTTRAGTTT) and sequencing by Illumina MiSeq with 300 bp paired-end V3 chemistry. Sequencing was performed in three batches. Samples that returned a low number of quality reads were resubmitted in subsequent batches.