Impact of diet in shaping gut microbiota revealed by a comparative study in children from Europe and rural Africa
- aDepartment of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
- bDepartment of Pediatrics, Meyer Children Hospital, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
- cDepartment of Biochemical Sciences, University of Florence, 50134 Firenze, Italy;
- dDNA Vision Agrifood S.A., B-4000 Liège, Belgium; and
- eCentro Interdipartimentale di Spettrometria di Massa, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy
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Edited* by Daniel L. Hartl, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved June 30, 2010 (received for review April 29, 2010)

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- Published in issue August 17, 2010.
- Published first August 2, 2010.
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- Carlotta De Filippoa,
- Duccio Cavalieria,
- Monica Di Paolab,
- Matteo Ramazzottic,
- Jean Baptiste Poulletd,
- Sebastien Massartd,
- Silvia Collinib,
- Giuseppe Pieraccinie, and
- Paolo Lionettib,1
- aDepartment of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
- bDepartment of Pediatrics, Meyer Children Hospital, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy;
- cDepartment of Biochemical Sciences, University of Florence, 50134 Firenze, Italy;
- dDNA Vision Agrifood S.A., B-4000 Liège, Belgium; and
- eCentro Interdipartimentale di Spettrometria di Massa, University of Florence, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Edited* by Daniel L. Hartl, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved June 30, 2010 (received for review April 29, 2010)
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- 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: paolo.lionetti{at}unifi.it.
Author contributions: C.D.F., D.C., and P.L. designed research; C.D.F., M.D.P., S.M., and S.C. performed research; G.P. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; M.R. and J.B.P. analyzed data; and C.D.F., D.C., M.D.P., and P.L. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data deposition: Data were submitted to the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) using ISA tools (ISAcreator and ISAconverter, http://isatab.sourceforge.net/index.html). The dataset is available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/ERP000133.
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