ena-STUDY-DUKE UNIV-10-09-2019-17:22:26:445-315
Human diet plant metabarcoding study
Dietary intake is difficult to measure reliably in humans because approaches typically rely on self-reporting, which can be incomplete and biased. In field studies of animals, DNA sequencing-based approaches such as metabarcoding have been developed to characterize diets, but such approaches have not previously been widely applied to humans. Here, we present data derived from sequencing of a chloroplast DNA marker (the P6 loop of the trnL (UAA) intron) in stool samples collected from 11 human subjects consuming both controlled and freely selected diets.
Dietary intake is difficult to measure reliably in humans because approaches typically rely on self-reporting, which can be incomplete and biased. In field studies of animals, DNA sequencing-based approaches such as metabarcoding have been developed to characterize diets, but such approaches have not previously been widely applied to humans. Here, we present data derived from sequencing of a chloroplast DNA marker (the P6 loop of the trnL (UAA) intron) in stool samples collected from 11 human subjects consuming both controlled and freely selected diets.