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SUBMITTER: Sanapareddy N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3446812 | biostudies-other | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Sanapareddy Nina N Legge Ryan M RM Jovov Biljana B McCoy Amber A Burcal Lauren L Araujo-Perez Felix F Randall Thomas A TA Galanko Joseph J Benson Andrew A Sandler Robert S RS Rawls John F JF Abdo Zaid Z Fodor Anthony A AA Keku Temitope O TO
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Differences in the composition of the gut microbial community have been associated with diseases such as obesity, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and colorectal cancer (CRC). We used 454 titanium pyrosequencing of the V1-V2 region of the 16S rRNA gene to characterize adherent bacterial communities in mucosal biopsy samples from 33 subjects with adenomas and 38 subjects without adenomas (controls). Biopsy samples from subjects with adenomas had greater numbers of bacteria from 87 taxa than co ...[more]