Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2022
Publication Title
Nature Microbiology
Volume
7
Issue
6
Pages
780-795
Publisher Name
Nature Research
Abstract
While gut microbiome and host gene regulation independently contribute to gastrointestinal disorders, it is unclear how the two may interact to influence host pathophysiology. Here we developed a machine learning-based framework to jointly analyse paired host transcriptomic (n = 208) and gut microbiome (n = 208) profiles from colonic mucosal samples of patients with colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. We identified associations between gut microbes and host genes that depict shared as well as disease-specific patterns. We found that a common set of host genes and pathways implicated in gastrointestinal inflammation, gut barrier protection and energy metabolism are associated with disease-specific gut microbes. Additionally, we also found that mucosal gut microbes that have been implicated in all three diseases, such as Streptococcus, are associated with different host pathways in each disease, suggesting that similar microbes can affect host pathophysiology in a disease-specific manner through regulation of different host genes. Our framework can be applied to other diseases for the identification of host gene–microbiome associations that may influence disease outcomes.
Identifier
85130137379 (Scopus)
Recommended Citation
Priya, Sambhawa; Burns, Michael B.; Ward, Tonya; Mars, Ruben A.T.; Adamowicz, Beth; Lock, Eric F.; Kashyap, Purna C.; Knights, Dan; and Blekhman, Ran. Identification of shared and disease-specific host gene–microbiome associations across human diseases using multi-omic integration. Nature Microbiology, 7, 6: 780-795, 2022. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Biology: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01121-z
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