Population-based study on salivary microbiome of Japanese adults. human oral metagenome

We collected saliva from Japanese adults aged over 40 years inhabiting Hisayama town, Fukuoka, Japan in a health examination performed as a part of the follow-up survey of the Hisayama cohort study on 2007. The V1-V2 region of 16S amplicon sequence of human salivary microbiome were analyzed using Ion PGM. The project goal is to identify core and pan salivary microbiome in Japanese adults and to clarify the relationship with host's health and health-related conditions.