Identifying personal microbiomes using metagenomic codes

By Eric A. Franzosa, Katherine H. Huang, James F. Meadow, Dirk Gevers, K. P. Lemon, B. Bohannan, Curtis Huttenhower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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The gut microbiome: Relationships with disease and opportunities for therapy (2018, background): “Emerging evidence suggests that these factors collectively shape the gut microbiome throughout an individual’s lifespan, resulting in a unique and personalized microbial fingerprint (Franzosa et al., 2015).”
Mother-to-Infant Microbial Transmission from Different Body Sites Shapes the Developing Infant Gut Microbiome (2018, background): “Because considerable individualized strain-level heterogeneity has been observed in the human microbiome (Franzosa et al., 2015; Schloissnig et al., 2013; Truong et al., 2017), finding the same strain in the mother and in the infant would give strong evidence of intra-pair transmission.”
The healthy human microbiome (2016, background): “temporal stability than do microbial abundance profiles [8, 73, 74].”
Microbial strain-level population structure and genetic diversity from metagenomes (2017, unknown): “With StrainPhlAn, we were able to explain previously observed community-level gut microbiome stability and individuality (Schloissnig et al. 2013; Franzosa et al. 2015) through a mechanism of within-subject strain retention.”
Temporal Stability of the Human Skin Microbiome (2016, unknown): “Recent research has suggested that individuals might possess distinguishing microbial ﬁngerprints that are stable over time (Franzosa et al., 2015).”