Comparison of distal gut microbiota structure and function in US and Egyptian children

Cultural traditions, diet, and lifestyles of ethnic groups living in different geographic locations can serve as a source of variability in human gut microbiota. To examine the differences in gut microbiome of geographically distinct populations, we have carried out phylogenetic, functional, and metabolite analyses of the distal gut microbiota of healthy adolescents from United States and Egypt using next generation high-throughput sequencing.