项目编号 PRJCA030517
项目标题 Unveiling Early Microbial Colonization: 2bRAD-M Enables the Analysis of Low-Biomass Microbiome in Maternal and Infant Microbiome
涉及领域 Environmental
数据类型 Whole genome sequencing
Metagenome
Raw sequence reads
Genome sequencing
物种名称 human milk metagenome
human gut metagenome
描述信息 The microbial composition of human breast milk and infant meconium offers critical insights into early microbial colonization, contributing to the infant's immune system and long-term health outcomes1. However, analyzing these samples often faces technical challenges and problems of low-resolution using conventional methods due to their low microbial biomass. Here, we employed type IIB restriction enzymes site-associated DNA sequencing for microbiome (2bRAD-M), a reduced metagenomics method, to address these issues and profile species-level microbial composition. We collected samples of breast milk, maternal feces, and infant meconium and compared 2bRAD-M against the commonly used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and the gold-standard whole metagenomics sequencing (WMS). The accuracy and robustness of 2bRAD-M were demonstrated through its consistently high correlation in bacterial individual abundance and low whole-community-level distance with paired WMS samples. Moreover, with 2bRAD-M, we observed clinical variables associated with infant microbiota variations and significant microbial diversity changes across different lactation stages in breast milk. This study underscores the importance of employing 2bRAD-M in future large-scale and longitudinal studies of maternal and infant microbiomes, enhancing our understanding of microbial colonization and transmission in early life stages.
样品范围 Environment
发布日期 2025-01-09
项目资金来源
机构 项目类型 授权项目ID 授权项目名称
Health and Medical Research Fund 10212276
提交者 Yuesong Jiang (jiang666@connect.hku.hk)
提交单位 The Uinversity of Hong Kong
提交日期 2024-09-25

项目包含数据信息

资源名称 描述
BioSample (247)  show -
GSA (5) -
CRA022259 WMS sequencing data of human fecal samples
CRA021477 16S sequencing data of human milk samples
CRA021480 16S sequencing data of human gut samples
CRA019237 2bRAD-M sequencing data of human milk samples
CRA019236 2bRAD sequencing data of human gut samples