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Gut bacteria gene complement dwarfs human genome

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Sequencing project finds that Europeans share a surprising number of bacteria.

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  1. Qin, J. et al. Nature 464, 59-65 (2010).

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Bennett Hellman, A. Gut bacteria gene complement dwarfs human genome. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.104

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