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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Smith A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697683 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smith Alana A Pierre Joseph F JF Makowski Liza L Tolley Elizabeth E Lyn-Cook Beverly B Lu Lu L Vidal Gregory G Starlard-Davenport Athena A
Scientific reports 20190816 1
Growing evidence highlights an association between an imbalance in the composition and abundance of bacteria in the breast tissue (referred as microbial dysbiosis) and breast cancer in women. However, studies on the breast tissue microbiome have not been conducted in non-Hispanic Black (NHB) women. We investigated normal and breast cancer tissue microbiota from NHB and non-Hispanic White (NHW) women to identify distinct microbial signatures by race, stage, or tumor subtype. Using 16S rRNA gene s ...[more]