ERC Advanced Grant · 2017
Discovering microbiome-based disease risk factors
Identifying risk factors for diseases that can be prevented or delayed by early intervention is of major importance, and numerous genetic, lifestyle, anthropometric and clinical risk factors were found for many different diseases. Another source of potentially pertinent disease risk factors is the human microbiome - the collective genome of trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites that reside in the human gut. However, very few microbiome disease markers were found to date. Here, we aim to develop risk prediction tools based on the human microbiome that predict the likelihood of an individual to develop a particular condition or disease within 5-10 years. We will use a cohort of…
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