High stability of faecal microbiome composition in guanidine thiocyanate solution at room temperature and robustness during colonoscopy

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
• ² Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
• ³ Division of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.