Project

Testing of phenotype predictions for heritable microbiomes

Code
01T01813
Duration
01 January 2014 → 28 October 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Microbiology
    • Systems biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Microbiology
Keywords
heritability health gut microbiome functionality
 
Project description

The gut microbiome plays an important role in several health related processes. Whether the microbiome composition is characterized by a heritability factors needs to be evaluated. This project will make use of genomic information of the microbiome of large cohort of monozygotic and dizygotic twins and will assess to what extent genomic differences are translated into

phenotypic and functional differences.