title: Analysis of the human intestinal microbiota from 92 volunteers after ingestion of identical meals.
abstract: The intestinal microbiota composition of 92 volunteers living in Japan was identified following the consumption of 'identical meals' (1,879 kcal/day) for 3 days. When faecal samples were analysed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism with several primer-restriction enzyme systems and then clustered, the patterns could be divided into 2 clusters. Contribution tests and partition modelling showed that OTU211 of the 35f-MspI system and OTU237 of the 35f-AluI system were key factors in the distribution of these groups. However, significant differences among these groups in terms of body mass index and age were not observed.
authors.affiliation: Benno Laboratory, Innovation Center, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Touyama
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kibe
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Benno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimakawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maruo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Toda
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tagami
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Chonan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Benno
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044822:Biodiversity; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D004435:Eating; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D062407:Meals; D054892:Metagenome / Q000187:drug effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D055815:Young Adult