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Getting to the core of the gut microbiome

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Metagenomic analysis of gastrointestinal bacteria sheds light on obesity.

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Figure 1: The core gut microbiome and energy metabolism.

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  1. Mathias H. Tschöp is at the Obesity Research Center and Genome Research Institute, Depts. of Psychiatry & Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA;,

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  2. Philip Hugenholtz is at DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA;,

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  3. Christopher L. Karp is at the Division of Molecular Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.,

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